828 Quotes About Patriotism

  • Author Rudyard Kipling
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    Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

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  • Author Wendy Kaminer
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    Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

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  • Author Alphonse de Lamartine
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    Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

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  • Author Bob Latta
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    Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

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  • Author Richard Lee
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    A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms.

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  • Author H. L. Mencken
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    The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

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