Patriotism Quotes · Page 110

I'm from the country. All I've even done was use my hands. I guess that's how I've strengthened them over the years.

— Jarvis Landry

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

— Anonymous

How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?

— Ivica Dacic

Patriotism is somewhat the essence of a nation's existence but the very patriot might just be a pawn.

— Akinlade Moyosore

Sometimes you are valued more when you're away than when you are in your own country.

— Santi Cazorla

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

— Sam Lipsyte

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

— Trey Anastasio

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

— Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe Robert Walker

I am a patriot. I love my country and its values and I am also immensely grateful to the brave souls who…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana,…

— Neko Case

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even…

— Aaron Sorkin

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all…

— Leo Tolstoy

“patriotism of many is…a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated…

— David Ramsay

I felt it from within. We have tremendous discontent in the country. We have tremendous problems in the country. And I felt…

— Donald Trump

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that…

— Naoto Kan

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair…

— Johnny Van Zant

Europe has an incredibly long, bloody history based on an excess of nationalism which has also created a lot of amazing art.…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely…

— Simon Mainwaring

I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country.…

— Jessie Redmon Fauset

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most…

— Martin Filler

“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as…

— Shlomo Sand

“Like all Americans, or like all Americans who are conscious of being American, Parker and Zema's father always believed he was his…

— Steve Erickson

Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the…

— Jim Webb

“Moreover, there was what Amy called “the cocksuckers’ contingent of the country”—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they…

— John Irving

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon…

— Peter Morgan

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

— Jack Kemp

“Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”

— Edith Cavell

“Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never”

— Cardinal Richelieu

You can overthrow a country now with your phone. How cool is that?-Ralph Cirella thought on a friday night.

— Howard Stern

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

— Ludwig Borne

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

— Haruki Murakami

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

— Edward Abbey

You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.

— Steve Prefontaine

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

— G. Edward Griffin

I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country…

— Anonymous

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

— Brigitte Bardot

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

— Chris Matthews

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

— John Hughes

Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going.

— Ron Chernow