828 Quotes About Patriotism

Life is too short to find an identity for you, many fails in identifying oneself;The one, who identifies self, marks an identity for his Nation

A patriot is not someone who condones the conduct of our country whatever it does. It is someone who fights every day for the ideals of the country, whatever it takes.

Our home villages with the hills, mountains and forests, the lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, waterfall and fjords. The smell of new hay in summer, of birches in spring, of the sea, and the big forest, and even the biting winter cold. Everything . . . Norwegian songs and music and so much, much more. That’s our Fatherland and that’s what we have to struggle to get back.

Pour mon père, le patriotisme sentait la mort, il n’y accordait que du mépris...et aux frontières peu de vertus.[…]Les thèses pacifistes de mon père, le dégoût de la guerre, je les servais avec la conviction superficielle des idées acquises par héritage. Juliette les trouvait indécentes.

It's [Canada] going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it.

[T]hey know they’re being good when they thank the troops and their eyes shimmer with love for themselves and this tangible proof of their goodness.

Like all other virtues, patriotism when carried to excess becomes a vice; but that does not mean that patriotism is incompatible with respect for others.

We have drawn borders on a piece of paper and now want to die for that one section of the paper.

When, in a free society, the press is criticized for negativity, that almost always means it has dared to question the policies of the party in power. 'Patriotism,' Samuel Johnson said, 'is the last refuge of a scoundrel.' He could have been speaking of those who use it to shield themselves from dissent.