Quotes of: Patriotic Keyword

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

Edward Abbey

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 higher plain.

George McGovern

...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.

Irène Némirovsky

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

Michael Moore

Alicia: Why should I? Devlin: Patriotism. Alicia: That word gives me a pain.

Notorious

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Gary Hart

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

William Randolph

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Dave Barry

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

Denis Diderot

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

Jack Bowman

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Lord Byron

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Lincoln Steffens

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Michael Ignatieff

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Todd Gitlin

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

Sylvia's Lovers

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Kevin Brownlow

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

Rafael Cruz

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Prescott Bush

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Addams