Patriotism Quotes · Page 116

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

— Pat Buchanan

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— Anonymous

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

— Barack Obama

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

— Anonymous

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

— Arundhati Roy

“It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word…

— Anonymous

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.”

— Chris Hedges

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in…

— Jose Marti

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You find your government stupid and primitive, ugly and clumsy but on the other hand you love your country very much and…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

— Michael Jeffery

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is…

— Thomas Jefferson

Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in…

— Chip Berlet

Proliferation of fanatical religious terrorists with safe harbors in broken countries, and the means to obtain and the will to use nuclear,…

— Pete Olson

I pledged to put country before party and assert my independence when it reflects my principles or the needs of Central Virginia,…

— Abigail Spanberger

Canada was one of the first countries that took an interest in my career. Apart from a freak hit I had in…

— Chris de Burgh

“LONG LIVE... This country is but a wish of the spirit, a counter-sepulcher. In my country, tender proofs of spring and badly…

— René Char

We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and…

— Marine Le Pen

My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose.…

— George W. Bush

Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see…

— Brad Paisley

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when…

— Jerry Ash

“To conclude on a personal note, these thoughts came to me again and again in the past few months. There has been…

— Romila Thapar

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

— Eric Cantona

What would I reclaim America as? I do want it to be a diverse country.

— Erika M. Anderson

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

— Oliver Goldsmith

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

— Tahir Shah

I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.

— Ruth Westheimer

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

— Joseph Brodsky

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

— Anonymous

Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

— Cameron Winklevoss

“I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin Towers From Rape of a…

— Sara Niles

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

— Stuart Chase

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

— Ralph Peters

“purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.”

— Michael Wolff

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their…

— Marcus Garvey

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of…

— Richard Ford

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

— Clyde Tombaugh