“Never build your country, until you build and grow your people” — Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere. — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
I love those long country lanes where you have overhanging trees and really dappled light. — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong". — U Thant Copy Share Image
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories — Desmond Child Copy Share Image
To represent your country is an absolute honour. If I was picked at prop, I'd try and do my best at that. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
“People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“For even a century’s worth of bloodshed after the war that was supposed to end all wars, we are painfully far from… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“Nationalist chimps sell war in the name of security, Stoneage civilians rush to bulk-buy graveyard plots. Merchant of murder, you, yell about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I saw my country first. Because, whoever gets up into space from whichever nationality, the first thing they do is they look… — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?" I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image