Cormac McCarthy Quotes

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.

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

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

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.

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

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

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

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

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

My country? My country is the United States.

I wish to be no less than national in all the positions I may take.

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.

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.

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.

… 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.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

I am a Brazilian and only support our team.

I feel very strongly about our flag and our country.

I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.

I love my country. That's the thing about the Olympics. You're doing it for your country.

I wanted to make America proud.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.