Acceptance Quote by George McGovern

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a…

— George McGovern

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can…

— Robert Stam

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my…

— Emmylou Harris

Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children,…

— Kim Jong-un

Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

— Mike Cloud

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...

— George Bernard Shaw

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.

— Malcolm Jenkins

I think patriotism, by its very definition, is love of country. But we seem to have become a country where the highest thing we're…

— Cory Booker

Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's…

— Agnes Macphail

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Patriotism cannot be instilled inside anybody, it just happens to be there. And it can rise above any notion, any emotion.

— Boney Kapoor