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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what, together, we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism
3

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

Patriotism
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Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Patriotism
5

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Walter Scott

Patriotism
6

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Lawrence Durrell

Patriotism
7

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Luis Buñuel

Patriotism
8

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

Patriotism
9

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

H. G. Wells

Patriotism
10

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton

Patriotism
11

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

George Washington

Patriotism
12

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

Henry James

Patriotism
13

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Patriotism
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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

Ernest Hemingway

Patriotism
15

If I haven’t fought for my country at least I’ll paint for her.

Eugène Delacroix

Patriotism
16

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

Sinclair Lewis

Patriotism
17

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Horace

Patriotism
18

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Alfred Adler

Patriotism
19

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville

Patriotism
20

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

Patriotism
21

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

Patriotism
22

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by patriotism I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Erich Fromm

Patriotism
23

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Dryden

Patriotism
24

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Patriotism
25

O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Patriotism
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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

Patriotism
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism
28

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

Denis Diderot

Patriotism
29

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

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism
30

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism
32

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism
34

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism
35

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Patriotism
36

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

J. William Fulbright

Patriotism
37

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Thomas Paine

Patriotism
38

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Patriotism
39

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

Patriotism
40

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Joseph Addison

Patriotism
42

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Laozi

Patriotism
43

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

H. L. Mencken

Patriotism
44

Who saves his country violates no law.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Patriotism
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer

Patriotism
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Henry David Thoreau

Patriotism
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Spiro Agnew

Patriotism
48

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

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism
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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

Patriotism
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“September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what, together, we can do for the freedom of man.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

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.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

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

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

If I haven’t fought for my country at least I’ll paint for her.

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

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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

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

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Who saves his country violates no law.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

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

“September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001