Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. Jimmy Carter Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. Jane Addams We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. Friedrich Durrenmatt We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. Barack Obama We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, be...

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 ha...

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. Frank Knox 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 Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. Ron Paul The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. Bernadine Dohrn The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Leo Tolstoy The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. David Hume The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. Herbert Croly The highest p...

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Mark Twain Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. George Orwell Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice. Jesse Ventura Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles de Gaulle Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. Henry Bolingbroke Patriotism...

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. Mark Twain Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. James Bryce Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. Charles Edward Montague Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Guy de Maupassant Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. Denis Diderot Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. Bill Kristol Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. Mick Jagger Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. Calvin Coolidge Pa...

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. Malcolm Turnbull My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country. Walter Annenberg My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. Franklin Knight Lane Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. Richard Aldington Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. George Borrow 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 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 feelin...

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. Arthur C. Clarke It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. Alfred Adler It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. Eric Hobsbawm It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. Ho Chi Minh I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotis...

I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team. Gary Speed I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. Eugene V. Debs I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. John F. Kennedy I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell 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. John F. Kerry If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a natio...

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. Dale Carnegie For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. Franklin Knight Lane Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. Claire Danes Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. George Washington Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. Emily Levine Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Diogenes I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take...

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. Rosa DeLauro 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. Doc Hastings 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. George William Curtis A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. William Ralph Inge A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. Bill Vaughan America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense o...