- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism Quotes
On owing something back to where you're from.
One writer frames patriotism simply as returning good for the good a country has given, a theme that runs through our Country collection. Others weigh centuries of devotion to homeland against its costs.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism cannot be instilled inside anybody, it just happens to be there. And it can rise above any notion, any emotion.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
- Nov 07, 2020
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020