Quotes on patriotism
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
~Zora Neale Hurston
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
~Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
~Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
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