158 Quotes Regarding Patriotism


Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barry

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Ann Coulter

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Edith Cavell

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
Francis Ford Coppola

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Bill Maher

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Lyn Nofziger

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Mick Jagger