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 […]
Patriotism Quotes
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 […]
Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for his country.
Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
It would hardly be wise to hold every one an enemy who could not see her (America) with our own enchanted eyes. It seems to be the common opinion of foreigners that Americans are “too” tender upon this point.
Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show.
It affords a generous and manly pleasure to conceive a little nation gathering its fruits and tending its herds with fearless confidence, though it lies open on every side to invasion, where, in contempt of walls and trenches, every man sleeps securely with his sword beside him; where all on the first approach of hostility […]
