'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.
Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.
Leo Tolstoy. . . defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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.
Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'. . . By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.
So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself