Patriotism

Love of country is like love of woman he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

- Felix Adler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

- Aldous Huxley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

- George Washington Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

- Steve Allen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

- Bob Riley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When he was our president, he wanted us to show our patriotism. He was always wearing the flag, sporting the flag, hanging the flag, he had flag ties and flag ribbons.

- Dawn Hudson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

- Ernest Hemingway Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In Europe, we're seeing a wave of so-called economic patriotism. Protectionism is pernicious, pervasive, the ill-conceived political response to globalization and on the increase.

- John Cridland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

- Erma Bombeck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Since Vietnam, the Democratic Party has been viewed as the weaker on national security issues. Who better to make the case than veterans of the war It's hard to accuse them of a lack of patriotism.

- Larry Sabato Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

- Todd Gitlin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When a natural disaster--be it a hurricane, earthquake, tornado or flood--hits a particular region or state, the rest of us can often feel disconnected because it's happening to 'them' and not 'us,' ... Buying bonds that are specifically designated for these types of disasters can help bring together Americans and create a sense of patriotism.

- Don Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

- David George Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and it's not unpatriotic to ask them, ... It's actually a higher form of patriotism.

- Richard Dreyfuss Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Patriotism is the religion of Hell.

- James Branch Cabell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

- George Galloway Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

hotbed of patriotism and they've lost confidence in this effort.

- John Murtha Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Patriotism is not a piece of paper. Had we wanted to live in other countries, we would have stayed there. But we came to Iraq.

- Ahmed Chalabi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

- Henry James Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

On the gallows I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms

- Robert Walpole Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

- Adlai Stevenson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes