Yoshida Shoin Quotes

Those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service.

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.

I'm not going to leave Canada, I'm going to fix it.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.

The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution.

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

I believe Raghuram Rajan's patriotism is no less than any of ours. As much as I know Raghuram Rajan, whatever post he holds, wherever he is, he is someone who will continue to serve the country.