He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
Patriotism Quotes
Let’s get this straight – God don’t bless America, God don’t bless anyone, God has got a tee time on the back nine and he doesn’t have time to be interrupted with this patriotic mumbo jumbo. Quit using My name as a justification for feeling superior to everyone else. You aren’t. You are actually among […]
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want […]
Would you sing “Krishna bless America” or pledge allegiance to “One nation under Allah”? If not, would that make you unpatriotic?
Putting a flag on your SUV is not a sacrifice. It’s patriotism lite.
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honorable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them – the desire to do right – is precisely the same.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see public dangers at a distance. The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears, and to sound the alarm, whenever he perceives the approach of mischief. But he sounds no alarm, when there […]
Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
