You don't have to be a show-off to be patriotic.

Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this…

— Laura Ingraham

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

— Kevin Brownlow

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

— Albert Einstein

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

— Barack Obama

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart,…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

— George H. W. Bush

What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of…

— Chris Hani

Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides.

— Jack Handey

In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to…

— Ashton Holmes

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…

— James Madison

“Oh Beautiful For A Land That's Free Where All Can Congregate Together Live With No Degree Of Bigotry And Hate”

— Kathy Bee

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

— Herbert Croly

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse…

— William J. H. Boetcker