Charles Farrar Browne Quotes

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their 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.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

There is one higher office than President, and I would call that patriot.

We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.

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

I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

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

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian.

In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In army, it was the existence of the sanctity of nation and the men I was commanding, and in sports, it was the pride of my country, while in politics, it is the rights of citizens I am fighting for.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It is happy for America that she has a patriot army, and equally so that a Washington is its leader. I rejoice in the opportunities I have had of seeing this great man in a variety of situations; — calm and intrepid where the battle raged, patient and persevering under the pressure of misfortune, moderate and possessing himself in the full career of victory. Great as these qualifications deservedly render him, he never appeared to me more truly so, than at the assembly we have been speaking of. On other occasions he has been supported by the exertions of an army and the countenance of his friends; but in this he stood single and alone.

To the brave man every land is a native country.

For citizens to always be ready to defend and to maintain American ideals of public justice and liberty would add to the self respect of the people. It will teach the people to think of their government as a unified and exalted power for good in the world—humane, unselfish, and aspiring.

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.