Patriotism Quotes
These are some of the best 'Patriotism' quotations and sayings.
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
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Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
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Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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Had I a dozen sons, - each in my love alike, - I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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I do love my country's good with a respect more tender, more holy and profound than mine own life.
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I have learned by much observation, that nothing will satisfy a patriot but a place.
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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
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