Patriotism Quotes - Page 13

• The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

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• A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• These are the times that try men's souls.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Motivation

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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  You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  Malcolm X

  Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

  John Wayne

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Choices, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

  Edith Cavell

  Hatred, Bitterness, Enough

  Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.

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• To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Acting, Creatures

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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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, Patriotic

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• Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... In the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Patriotic, America, Choices

  "Clinton: Iraq Tactics 'Working. We’re Just Years Too Late...'". Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Missouri, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2007.

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• Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Virtue, Principal

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  I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  Harriet Tubman

  Death, Freedom, Two

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• The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Habitat, Flavor, Depends

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• I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

  Mark Hatfield

  Want, Blind, Endorsements

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• I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Thinking, Vision, Foundation

  Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger, Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.

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• There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Real, Questioning, Critical

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American'". Interview with Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.

  William Rainey Harper

  Genuine, Partisans

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• ...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

  Mark Twain

  Majority

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17

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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, Patriotic, Usa

  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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• There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Popularity, Aim, Disguise

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

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• It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

  Prescott Bush

  Believe, Winning, Battle

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