Unpatriotic Quotes

To engage all sides of Parliament in a common national cause is not unpatriotic.

— Nicholas Soames

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

— Heather Bresch

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

— Harriette Simpson Arnow

“Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British”

— Ben Mitchell

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends,

— Pat Sajak

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against…

— Steven T. Byington

“It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we…

— Keith Ellison

There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

— Laura Dern

“Yeah, well call me unpatriotic, but I see don't see the cheerleader thing. Cheer isn't sexy. Dark is sexy. Ambivalent is sexy.…

— John Green

“In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

— Joe Conason

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

— Timothy Noah

Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to…

— James Madison

Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my…

— Will Rogers

If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to…

— Ralph Nader

Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . .…

— Robert Reich

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare…

— Jimmy Carter

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious…

— Paul Ryan

There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the…

— Pramila Jayapal

The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit…

— Barack Obama

Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American…

— Henry Giroux

The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are…

— Mary Travers

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,…

— James A. Baldwin

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label…

— Ron Paul

The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst…

— William Sloane Coffin

Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies…

— Howard Zinn

“Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he…

— Jacob M. Appel

It's not unpatriotic to have feelings and beliefs that don't go with the President - with his feelings and beliefs.

— Shavo Odadjian

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I wondered if anyone thought what we were doing was unpatriotic. It was weird. Thinking that to protest was somehow un-American.”

— Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

— Roy Jenkins

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”

— Anonymous

“Christianity made people unpatriotic, made them intolerant and dogmatic, willing to criticize other people’s gods and alternative lifestyles.”

— Rod Bennett

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

— Jonah Goldberg

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

— Jeff Flake

The suspicion that immigrants are not to be trusted or are unpatriotic is not just wrong; it is un-American. And dangerous.

— Ted Lieu