The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
All true patriots will meet in heaven.
There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
Great artists have no country.
My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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.
I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
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