allegiance to the nation Quotes

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

A patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

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

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.