Julie Burchill Quotes

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

I am a loyal American, and I love my country.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

I love my country more than anything else.

I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred.

… loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.

You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.

My mind is always focused on the country.

I don't describe myself as a nationalist, but I do love my country.

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

I think Americans are really patriotic people, so patriotism is something they can understand. I'm very patriotic about Brazil, my country, and that includes my language.

I'm a huge monarchist.

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.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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 love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.