Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Patriotism Quotes
At a sporting event, both men and women should stand during the national anthem… Black people should remain seated for a couple of bars and then stand up very slowly to show that, even though they got a raw deal and never asked to come here in the first place, they’re still patriotic deep down […]
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
Oh, honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my downtrodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is precious to you. Quite as warmly as you love your country, they love theirs. Do not covet the little vineyards of Naboth’s so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab […]
It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations
A patriot is necessarily and invariably a lover of the people. But even this mark may sometimes deceive us. The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad. Before we confer on a man, who caresses the people, the […]
The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land.
It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government.
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest.
Now the Fourth of July has several times been alluded to, and I believe it is generally thought that on that anniversary the spirit of a certain bird known to heraldic ornithologists – and I believe to them alone – as the spread eagle, enters into every American’s breast, and compels him, whether he will […]
