I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. John F. Kerry on patriotism
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. Charles Edward Montague on patriotism
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. Richard Aldington on patriotism
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. Henry Bolingbroke on patriotism
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. George Borrow on patriotism
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Mark Twain on patriotism
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein on patriotism
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. George Washington on patriotism
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. George Bernard Shaw on patriotism
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. Bob Dylan on patriotism
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. Ambrose Bierce on patriotism
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Ambrose Bierce on patriotism
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. George William Curtis on patriotism
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. Richard M. Nixon on patriotism
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. Malcom X on patriotism
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. Nick Lampson on patriotism
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. Arthur Schopenhauer on patriotism
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry on patriotism
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. Ricardo Montalban on patriotism
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Ted Cruz on patriotism