Chris Matthews Quotes

Our patriotism is neither sectional nor sectarian. We may differ in our political and religious beliefs, but we are united for country. Loyalty to the government is our national creed.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

I'm not afraid to make a patriotic speech. There should be more of them.

The feeling of patriotism --- It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God ... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience

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.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

America is not held together by a common race, religion or ethnicity; it is held together by shared values.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

Sink all partisanship—America first.

We must be now and forever for Americanism and Nationalism and against Internationalism.

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.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

A Inaugural Address should attempt to unite the nation.