Patriotism Quotes - Page 17

• For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be.
  Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.
  O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
  They're all growing green in the old countrie.

  William Ernest Henley

  Home, Sea, Tree

  William Ernest Henley (2015). “A Selection of Poems”, p.141, Read Books Ltd

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• 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. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Heart

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

  Walter Cronkite

  Jobs, Lying, Facts

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• I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

  Jane Fonda

  Country, Reality, America

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• They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Patriotic, May

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• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Symbolism, Hopeful, Cynical

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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• Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

  Jesse Ventura

  Loyalty, Choices, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Sep 23, 2014

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Feelings, Suffering

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Country, Men, Example

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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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• Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Country, Real, Patriotic

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• The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Lying, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.109, tredition

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• It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, People, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.191

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• It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

  Aristotle

  Motivation, Character, Patriotic

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• In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Land, Circles

  "Moyers on Democracy" by Bill D. Moyers, (p. 26), 2008.

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• Laughter is America's most important export.

  Walt Disney

  Laughter, America, Important

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

  Karl Kraus

  Unattractive, Aversion, Nations

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, People, Black

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

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• I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

  Pierre Corneille

  Marriage, Fidelity, Alas

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• While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

  Al Sharpton

  Country, America, Flags

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• I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

  William Howard Taft

  Real, Thinking, Constitution

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• Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  People, United States, Flags

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• There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.

  Elizabeth I

  Husband, Eye, Home

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• You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Careers, Enemy

  "The Power of the Powerless". Book by Václav Havel, 1979.

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