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| 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 |
| The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~ Pablo Casals |
| Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~ James Bryce |
| It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~ Sallust |
| Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them! ~ Albert Einstein |
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,
Our love where we spent our toil,
And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
We pledge to our native soil.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
~ Rudyard Kipling |
| To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~ George Santayana |
| It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~ J. Horace McFarland |
| [P]atriotism… is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ~ Adlai Stevenson |
| The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~ William Shenstone |
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| If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~ Author Unknown |
| Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini |
| My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. ~ Mark Twain, |
| He loves his country best who strives to make it best. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell |
| Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. ~ Seneca |
| Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? ~ Adlai Stevenson |
| Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. ~ S.I. Hayakawa |
| A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country. ~ Thucydides |
| Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~ George Jean Nathan |
| Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ~ Mark Twain |
| Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ~ William R. Inge |
| He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~ Albert Einstein, |
| To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. ~ Buddha |
| I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~ Rosika Schwimmer |
| You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| 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. ~ Arthur C. Clarke |
| Patriotism is easy to understand in America – it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~ Calvin Coolidge |