| I
like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live
so that his place will be proud of him.
-- Abraham
Lincoln |  |
"You're
not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong,
no matter who does it or says it."
-- Malcom X
Patriotism
is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
-- Guy
de Maupassant
We
need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed
to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation
has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without
the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost
from other nations.
-- Francis John McConnell
| The highest patriotism
is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep
enough to call her to a higher standard.
-- George
McGovern | 
|
The notion that
a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more
likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed
than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning
to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
-- H. L. Mencken
We
must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an
age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not
from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which
were, for the moment, unpopular.
-- Edward R. Murrow
Patriotism
is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
-- George
Jean Nathan
 |
There are patriots who opposed
the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one
people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending
the United States of America.
-- Barack
Obama |
Can
anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives
on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have
not quarrelled with him?
-- Blaise Pascal
"We
should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a
patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and
thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should
be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the
claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other
nations of the world."
-- Lord Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts
"Patriotism means
to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other
public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the
country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country.
It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or
otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is
unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
-- Theodore
Roosevelt | |
To announce that
there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president,
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt (1918)
"Flags
are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains
and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
-- Arundhati
Roy |  |
 |
Patriotism
is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-- Bertrand
Russell |
The
peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only
as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to
be kept right; when wrong to be put right."
-- Carl Schurz
I
have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the
human family.
-- Rosika Schwimmer
