Patriotic Quotes

You also see it as a place where anyone in this world can call home. It’s not something to go crazy over and fight over but a place to share and love. I ultimately feel that we are all citizens of the world and we should be patriotic to the world more than any one area or place. The following quotes highlight my opinion perfectly. I hope you enjoy these patriotic quotes.

• PATRIOTIC QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
  Socrates


• He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
  Robert G. Ingersoll


• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
  Malcolm X


• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
  Albert Einstein


• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
  Pablo Casals


• Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
  Benjamin Franklin


• God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
  Giuseppe Mazzini


• Do not regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
  Adlai Ewing Stevenson


• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
  George William Curtis


• Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
  Adlai Stevenson


• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
  John F. Kennedy


• Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
  Calvin Coolidge


• A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
  Bill Vaughan


• I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
  Henry James


• Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
  Louis D. Brandeis


• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
  Henry Ward Beecher


• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
  Abraham Lincoln


• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
  Edward Abbey


• If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
  Hamilton Fish









• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
  Abraham Lincoln


• This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
  Theodore Roosevelt


• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
  George Santayana


• True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
  George Barrington


• You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
  George Bernard Shaw


• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
  Elmer Davis


• Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
  Daniel Webster


• Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.
  Carl Schurz


• Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
  James Garfield


• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
  Hubert H. Humphrey


• Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
  Abraham Lincoln


• It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations.
  Henry Cabot Lodge


• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.
  Francis John McConnell


• Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
  Thomas Jefferson


• He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
  Harry Emerson Fosdick


• Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
  Dwight D. Eisenhower


• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
  Mark Twain


• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
  James Bryce


• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
  Martin Luther King Jr.

Thanks for passing by my patriotic quotes page. Patriotism should be a philosophy where you have loyalty to human kind as a whole where the whole world comes together as one and we are patriots of the world. I hope one day the world that John Lennon imagined in his famous song becomes a reality. Till next time.




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