828 Quotes About Patriotism

One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.

My Compatriots (The Sonnet)Any compatriot of mine,Better have a grasp of prejudice.Arrogance sickens my soul,My heart revolts at the snobbish.Doubts can be healthy,But only if driven by curiosity.When driven by contempt,They only facilitate animosity.You don't have to agree,With the whole of my notion.But don't turn bitter my friend,For it is a trap of degradation.Logic may fail sometimes as well as sentiments.Never you lose o patriot your indivisible humanness.

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

Most people who hold that childish kind of love for their country have never left it.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

The barber's assistant asks if I am a Swede. An American? Not that either. A Russian? Well, then, what are you? I love to answer such nationalistically tinted questions with a steely silence, and to leave people who ask me about my patriotic feelings in the dark. Or I tell lies and say that I'm Danish. Some kinds of frankness are only hurtful and boring.

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.

Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.