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National honor is national property of the highest value.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

One of the great attractions of patriotism

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

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

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Patriotism ruins history.

Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

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.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!