Victor Hugo Quotes

In this war I am completely English.

I feel very strongly about our flag and our country.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

American labor, whenever it gathers, does so with love for its flag and country and loyalty to its government.

My country? My country is the United States.

I have never had but one allegiance; I can not divide it now. I have never loved but one flag, and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.

I have loved but one flag and cannot share that affection with the mongrel banner designed for the League [of Nations.]

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.

Unlike many other peoples less happy, we give our devotion to a Government, to its Constitution, to its flag, and not to men.

Patriotism, love of country, and pride in the flag which symbolizes country may be feelings which the race will at some period outgrow, but at present they are very real and strong, and the man who lacks them is a useless creature, a mere encumbrance to the land.

I am a man that loves the flag.

The course of nationalism, once it's attached to a cause opposite yours, is still the strongest force in the world.

Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.

Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

I loved my country, and I hated him.

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

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

I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.