If we ever forget that we
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
Love and business and family and
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
Our platform calls for a balanced
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare – it’s patriotism.
What this country needs what every
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Patriotism is when love of your
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
The greater the state, the more
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
The aspects of patriotism that hush
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
It is not the Government, the
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
For a writer only one form
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
If terror groups are to be
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
It seems that American patriotism measures
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
I have long believed that sacrifice
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
We, the People, recognize that we
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
The most tragic paradox of our
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
In all her history, from the
In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
Patriotism was a living fire of
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
It is not easy to see
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
I have no sense of patriotism
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.