Edward Everett Hale Quotes

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

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.

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

My country? My country is the United States.

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

Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow. Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier? No! Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field

I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the United States is important. I mean it depends on how you define loyalty.

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

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

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.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.

It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

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