828 Quotes About Patriotism

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that is to say, the imperative to live on one bit of ground marked red or blue on the map and to hate the other bits in green or black, has always seemed to me narrow-minded, blinkered and profoundly stupid. I am a soul brother to everything that lives, to the giraffe and to the crocodile as much as to man.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

Moreover, there was what Amy called “the cocksuckers’ contingent of the country”—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.