Appeals Quote by Robert H. Jackson

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions…

— Robert Jackson

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their…

— Jesse Ventura

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

— George William Curtis

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

— Richard Aldington

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

— H. G. Wells

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

— Denis Diderot

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means -…

— Leo Tolstoy

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills…

— Leo Tolstoy

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but…

— William Jennings Bryan

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

— Mark Twain

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 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