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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
Sep 17, 2025
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
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!
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
One of the great attractions of patriotism
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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.
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.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.