For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
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?
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
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.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
I think Americans are very patriotic.
