“In most commercial ways we’re a pretty forward country. In these moral ways we’re content to be a pretty backward country.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Like so many others, my military career was anchored by a calling to give back to a country that had given me… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries? — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle. — Max Azria Copy Share Image
I want to live in a country where we believe in helping each other, where we see where resources are lacking. — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
“Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who shall we follow next? Who shall we kill… — William Edgar Stafford Copy Share Image
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Country living—and definitely living in the country with a lot of animals—isn’t peaceful. It’s full of blood and guts and murder and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When playing for Japan, it means that I carry my country on my shoulders and I feel a different kind of pressure… — Shinji Kagawa Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy for people like me”—a diplomat’s son raised abroad and educated in America—“to be totally off base about this country… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“Military is Legal Terrorism (Ceasefire Sonnet) Any planet that confuses guns with gallantry is a planet of apes. Prioritizing military over education,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“I suspect the next 10 years will be years of turmoil and hardship the globe over, and with that will come a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
We should educate all Party members and other working people to become genuine patriots who first love their parents, spouses and children… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I am not Left or Right. I believe in nationalism, patriotism, the federal structure, democracy, and the poor. — Mamata Banerjee Copy Share Image
Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new. — Peter Schuyler Copy Share Image
"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment. — Strive Masiyiwa Copy Share Image
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
I'm really glad I got to represent my country and make my people proud. — Zaza Pachulia Copy Share Image
