Patriotism Quotes

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

Robert Walpole

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Robert Walpole

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Stonewall Jackson

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no o...

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

Tecumseh

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

Todd Gitlin

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

Todd Gitlin

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Tom Hooper

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Thomas E. Mann

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Thomas Steinbeck

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

William Cowper

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Winston Churchill

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

William Ralph Inge

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

William Pitt

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

Will Thomas