Walter Lippmann Quotes

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

In this war I am completely English.

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.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

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

My first allegiance must stay where it has always been, to the people of the United States, my own people.

When I look at his gallant services, finding him first in the military school of the United States, educated at the expense of his country—taught to love the principles of the Constitution; afterwards entering its service fighting beneath the Stars and Stripes, ... I cannot understand how he can be willing to hail another banner, and turn from that of his country; .... If I could not unsheathe my sword in vindication of the flag of my country, ... I would return the sword to its scabbard; I would never sheathe it in the bosom of my mother. Never! Never! Never!

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.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.

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

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

Anyone, they say, is entitled to change his mind. Not about the defence of Britain, you're not. You either feel it in your heart, in your bones, in your gut, or you don't.

I wanted to make America proud.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

We weren't lucky enough to sacrifice our lives for our country, but at least we can live for our country!

Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.

We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.