love for one's country Quotes

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.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.

One of the great attractions of patriotism

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

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

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

You're not a patriot unless even when you lose, it's still your country.

So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

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

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?