828 Quotes About Patriotism

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.