Patriotic Quotes - Page 5

• I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

  Uma Thurman

  Beautiful, Heart, Lucky

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• Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, 4th Of July, America

  1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.

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• Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

  George Jean Nathan

  Real, Political, Patriotism

  Testament of a Critic bk. 1 (1931)

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• God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

  Luis Bunuel

  God, Teamwork, Country

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.153, Random House

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Xenophobia, Usa, America

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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• Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Zoos, Hippie, Black

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• We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

  William Wallace

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Statement before the Battle of Stirling Bridge on September 11, 1297. "History of Scotland". by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 121, 1841.

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• Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  Plutarch

  Greek, Patriotism, Citizens

  Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”

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• I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

  Bill Maher

  Country, Thinking, Patriotism

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.71

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• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Creativity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Thank You, Strong, Children

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.158, Turner Publishing Company

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• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Names, Evil, Patriotism

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

  George Washington

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Government

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

  William Shenstone

  Love, Country, Mean

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111

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• In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

  Thomas Paine

  Light, July, Hands

  Thomas Paine, “Liberty Tree”

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• I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strength, Country, Military

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

  Denis Diderot

  Patriotism, Ephemeral, Threat

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, Clothes

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• What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Patriotism, Literature

  Cato act 4, sc. 4 (1713) See Nathan Hale 1

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• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  George Washington

  Freedom, 4th Of July, America

  George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.178

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Country, Patriotism

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

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• It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humble, Praying, Sin

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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