Putting a flag on your SUV is not a sacrifice. It’s patriotism lite.
Patriotism Quotes
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honorable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them – the desire to do right – is precisely the same.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see public dangers at a distance. The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears, and to sound the alarm, whenever he perceives the approach of mischief. But he sounds no alarm, when there […]
Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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
