Patriotism Quotes · Page 102

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

— George Papandreou

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or…

— Jason Isbell

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

— William Gibson

It's an honor to be able to represent our country, and I'll go out there and play hard for the U.S.A.

— Alex Bregman

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

— William S. Burroughs

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's sad that in the struggle for my country's freedom, I have lost my personal freedom.

— Geert Wilders

“But the biggest problem with being fed lies about how great we are is that people won't be prepared for how evil…

— Aron Ra

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By…

— Thomas Paine

You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated…

— Xenophon

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able,…

— Aldous Huxley

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that…

— Sharon Maas

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.”

— Ann Medlock

If I criticize my country, it is indeed very painful for me. It doesn't make me happy. But, if I see something…

— Naseeruddin Shah

John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine…

— Dave Barry

We had nothing to lose, Nothing to gain, Nothing we desired anymore, Except to make our lives into a work of art.…

— Lana Del Rey

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are…

— Thomas Paine

We in the small developing countries are beginning to understand that our own citizens share a common fate requiring the active role…

— Said Musa

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing…

— Richard M. Weaver

“God's earth is good. It is only we who are bad. How little justice and humility we have, how poor our understanding…

— Anton Chekhov

Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially…

— Richard Henry Lee

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

— Frank Prochaska

China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent.

— Jan Chipchase

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

— Rick Santorum

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

— Alexander Gordon Smith

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

— Simon Bolivar

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

— Steve Schmidt

“This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.”

— Patrick Mendis

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

— Dennis Miller

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

— Garry Trudeau

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

I feel very strongly about my country and stronger still about people who abuse my country.

— Smriti Irani

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

— Emile M. Cioran

“I don't want to live in the strongest country in the world, I want to live in the freest.”

— Brian Preston

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

— Nathan Hale

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

— Mahatma Gandhi