Mark Hatfield Quotes

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart..

Saying my President “right or wrong” is like saying my driver “drunk or sober.”

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

I feel sorry for those who measure their patriotism by how often and how viciously they can criticize our government.

We must differentiate between loyalty to one’s country and blind loyalty to the policy that a particular administration happens to be carrying out.

Let us abandon this narrow conception of patriotism, which consists of the doctrine, "My country right or wrong." There is a nobler doctrine, ... "My country must always be right.

...the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

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.

Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

A patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.