Quotes on Patriotism

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.