George William Curtis Quotes

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

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.

I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

I love my country. That's the thing about the Olympics. You're doing it for your country.

Philippines, what an amazing honor it has been to carry your name across my chest and to embody you in all aspects.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.

You're not a patriot unless even when you lose, it's still your country.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.