(419 quotes found)
“We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.”
General George Catlett Marshall
“The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?”
General George S. Patton
“What could I do but go with them [Civil War soldiers], or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”
Clara Barton
“Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism”
John Haynes Holmes
“Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.”
Sydney J. Harris
“Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.”
Robert Santos
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
Bob Dylan
