Here are some Quotes about patriotism.
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
~Zora Neale Hurston
This is true patriotism, because if you lie for the country, you are doing a disservice to the nation.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
~Woodrow Wilson
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~Pablo Casals
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
~Sir Winston Churchill
This is a really funny take on Patriotism by Sir Churchill.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
~Bertrand Russell
But Sir Bertrand, what you call trivial are not so trivial to a lot of us.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
~Samuel Johnson
No sir, it should be politics and not patriotism. But then who am I to refute.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
~George Jean Nathan
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
~Adlai E. Stevenson
This is quite true, because we are only patriotic when some event of national importance happens, but the very next day we are back to grind, and forget what we can do for the Country.
You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
~Malcolm X
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
~Calvin Coolidge
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
~John Adams
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
~Guy de Maupassant
But Wars are not hatched by Patriots. Most wars in the history as well as today have been fought for reasons that have nothing to do with Patriotism. Of course, the defending country fights for patriotism, but the assailant often has a very different reason.
The single best augury is to fight for one’s country.
~Homer
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
~Albert Einstein
Nationalism is not patriotism. True patriots are not nationalists.
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
~Homer
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
~Richard Aldington
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
~George Bernard Shaw
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
~Voltaire
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
~George Bernard Shaw
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
~Nathan Hale
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
~Seneca
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
~Eugene V. Debs
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
~Robert G. Ingersoll
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
~Diogenes
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
~Author Unknown
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
~John F. Kennedy
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
~William Shenstone
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