If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else. — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army. — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people. — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
God doesn't really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be… — Victor J. Glover Copy Share Image
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I never thought of serving as a conflict of interest, that would have been a luxury! I just needed something to survive.… — Donna M. Loring Copy Share Image
My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“We should stop worrying so much about the price of gasoline and start considering its cost . You really want to be… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
“The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you… — Gini Koch Copy Share Image
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“No, inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“My mother's mother came to this country in the usual way--she got on a boat with other immigrants and sailed from Sicily.… — Andrew Cotto Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began.… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image