There’s one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.
Patriotism Quotes
He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot. That man, therefore, is no patriot, who justifies the ridiculous claims of American usurpation; who endeavours to deprive the nation of its natural and lawful authority over its own colonies, which were settled under English protection; were constituted by an […]
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
Let’s get this straight – God don’t bless America, God don’t bless anyone, God has got a tee time on the back nine and he doesn’t have time to be interrupted with this patriotic mumbo jumbo. Quit using My name as a justification for feeling superior to everyone else. You aren’t. You are actually among […]
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want […]
Would you sing “Krishna bless America” or pledge allegiance to “One nation under Allah”? If not, would that make you unpatriotic?
Putting a flag on your SUV is not a sacrifice. It’s patriotism lite.
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.
