love for one's homeland Quotes

My fatherland has always the first claim on me.

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

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

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.

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.