(419 quotes found)
“Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy”
W. R. Inge
“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.”
Ann Coulter
“A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.”
George Bush
“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
Voltaire
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan”
Herman Melville
“Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show”
George Peppard
“My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind”
Thomas Jefferson
“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
Joseph Brodsky
“I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.”
George Washington
