Martin Heidegger Quotes

My first allegiance must stay where it has always been, to the people of the United States, my own people.

Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

Citizenship should be placed above everything else, even learning.

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives?

An actual residence of such a length of time as would give a man an opportunity of esteeming the Government from knowing its intrinsic value, was essentially necessary to assure us of a man’s becoming a good citizen.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

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

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.