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Famous Quotes About Patriotism

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Clara Barton
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Lyn Nofziger
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
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
George Galloway
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
John Bolton
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Michael N. Castle
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
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