Patriotism Quotes - Page 15

• The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Tyrants, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268

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• Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.

  John Lukacs

  Years, Community, Doe

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• Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Appreciation, Intelligent, Prosperity

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• Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Brain, Flags

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• Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

  Mark Twain

  Responsibility, Speak

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Honor, Flags

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.

  Edward Joseph Young

  Heart, Sacrifice, Race

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• Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Selfish, Opposites, Individualism

  David Ehrenfeld (2008). “Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology”, p.245, Oxford University Press

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• Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Passion, Age, Hot

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• One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

  John Avlon

  Tales, Partisanship

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• It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

  John Amery

  Government, Free Opinion, Decision

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

  Anton Chekhov

  Humility, Justice, World

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Country, Men, Wish

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• An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

  James Madison

  Army, Liberty, Republic

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

  Samuel Adams

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Mistake

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  Patrick Henry

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Jealous

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Descent, Critique

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.

  Frank I. Cobb

  Office, Independence, Criminals

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• When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Patriotic, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Groups, Outcast, Seems

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• Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

  Thomas Campbell

  Garden, Land, Tree

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.182

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• Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

  Graham Greene

  Country, World, Loyal

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts... the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.

  Edward S. Herman

  War, Struggle, Patriotic

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• Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Fighting, Giving

  Letter to Harrison Blake, 26 Sept. 1855

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• The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Noble, Virtue, Liable

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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