828 Quotes About Patriotism

Un popor care nu-și cunoaște istoria e ca un copil care nu-și cunoaște părinții.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.