828 Quotes About Patriotism

If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault and not theirs.

I have wept for my nation until I am out of tears. Not from a personal depression, but with the deepest grief and sorrow as one might have for a dying loved one who lays helplessly in the hospital. The patient in this case is our nation, America, but she is not so much ill as she is being euthanized...And so, being presently out of tears for the moment, I take up the pen.

Patriotism, as a rational choice, is the ideology of the rich, but for the masses this is just an irrational attitude to public life.

… treason against such a prince might easily be considered as patriotism to the state.

It is not the patriotism to spy a patriot's privacy and nor that behaviour justifies the standards and values of humankind. It is a tragedy of the morals.

Patriotism does not mean only to defend the borders, but also to recognise and accept the constitutional supremacy, respect of law, and duty to protect individual's life and property that patriotism comes in the context. Any refusal from this aspect is openly national treason.

From whence the voice of freedom doth ringA lone Patriot casts his life before the PhalanxThe Titans gather and do encroachThe Patriot diligently digs his moatEmbankments and bulwarks raise to the skySixty-million Patriots stand with him, to defy

We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we may not agree. This is a prerequisite for a functional democracy. But tolerance alone is not sufficient; it allows us to accept others without engaging with them, to feel smug and self-satisfied without challenging the boundaries within which too many of us live.

It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one's native country.