Patriotic Quotes - Page 7

• Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Freedom, Imagination, Liberty

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press

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• God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Mother, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

  Emmylou Harris

  Country, Children, Self

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• Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Country, Artist, Ifs

  Letter to Henry Miller, 1948.

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• I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Country, Fall

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• For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Believe, Past

  "Does Obama Believe Americans Support Tax Hikes?". www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2011.

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• It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Cheer, Long

  "Two Brutal Crimes Revive Debate Over Guns; Comic Book Artist's Demand for Respect 'Spawns' an Empire; Can New Gun Technology Save Lives?". "CNN Newsstand", www.cnn.com. March 3, 2000.

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• I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Thinking, Patriotism

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• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Blunders

  Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black

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• All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

  Francois Fenelon

  Country, Brother, Integrity

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• The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

  J. William Fulbright

  Country, House, Citizens

  "Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher". Book by Tristram Coffin, 1966.

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• I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Meaningful, Thinking, Voice

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, America, People

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

  Walter Scott

  Country Love, Men, Land

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Country

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• There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

  John Bolton

  Careers, Patriotism, Helping

  "Bolton 2012?". Interview with Robert Costa, www.nationalreview.com. June 20, 2011.

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• In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

  William E. Gladstone

  Love, Life, Time

  Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.

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• Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Henry Cuyler Bunner (1896). “The Poems of H.C. Bunner ...”

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• Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Usa, America

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.465, Library of America

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• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

  Alfred Adler

  Country, Lying, Men

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Men, Thinking, Patriotism

  "The Problem of Dissent". "Saturday Review" Magazine, Volume 48, December 1965.

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• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, 4th Of July, Mean

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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