You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Patriotism Quotes
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
A patriot wraps himself around the flag to defend it; a scoundrel wraps it around himself to defend himself.
Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.
Patriot: The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
A good citizen owes his life to his country.
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; […]
My kind of loyalty was to one’s country, not to it’s institutions or to its office holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to.
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
