The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
Patriotism Quotes
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan.
As religion is imitated and mocked by hypocrisy, so public duty is parodied by patriotism.
I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government.
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Patriotism is only a virtue if the person who has it lives in your country.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I’m tired of these Republicans, who spend so much time denigrating Democrats and other people’s commitment to the defense of our nation, went, I’m not going to listen to them talk to me about patriotism and how asking questions about the direction of our country somehow challenges patriotism, because asking questions about the direction of […]
Our country is wherever we are well off.
