We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
The family in this country is being torn apart. With each member doing his own thing, doing it if it feels good… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“Let My Country Awake By Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where… — Rudolph Amsel Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“My patriotism is both exclusive and inclusive. It is exclusive in the sense that in all humility I confine my attention to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
People can call us chauvinist pigs. We expect it. But there are two definitions of chauvinism. One is an unfounded loyalty to… — Jani Lane Copy Share Image
“Nationalism appeals to our tribal instincts, to passion and to prejudice, and to our nostalgic desire to be relieved from the strain… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States,… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great… — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The United States is a country founded on the ideal of freedom and equality, values later underlined by key historical figures like… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Advocating and participating in our democracy is how we keep America strong and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
I'm a proud conservative and firmly believe in a principled approach to foreign policy - one that builds on our values and… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her… — Dorothea Mackellar Copy Share Image
The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“For a moment, he was still that man, a boy, in that country, in that harbor, with his back to the years… — Paul Yoon Copy Share Image
In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
