Advocating Quote by Anonymous

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a…

— Ernest Belfort Bax

The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought…

— Ernest Belfort Bax

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

— Mark Twain

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't…

— Max Eastman

PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate…

— Chaz Bufe

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

— John F. Kerry

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment…

— Anonymous

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his…

— Robert A. Heinlein

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to…

— David Ehrenfeld

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

— George Clooney