Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
– Seneca
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
– Edward Abbey
I love my country, not my government.
– Jesse Ventura
Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.
– Robert Santos
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
– Theodore Roosevelt
True patriotism is doing something for your country.
– Bill Maher
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
– Edward Abbey
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
– Mark Twain
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
– Bertrand Russell
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
– George Bernard Shaw
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
– Barack Obama
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
– Clarence Darrow
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
– Rabindranath Tagore
True patriotism is not about blindly following one’s country, but about holding it accountable to its highest ideals.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
– George Bernard Shaw
True patriotism is not just about cherishing the memories of the past, but about creating a brighter future for one’s country.
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
– Albert Camus
Patriotism is not just about shouting slogans, it’s about living by the principles that make one’s country great.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
– Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is not just about feeling a sense of belonging, it’s about taking responsibility for the well-being of one’s country.
True patriotism is not about waving the flag, but about working to make our country a better place for all people.
Being patriotic is not just about singing the national anthem, it’s about living the national values every day.
A true patriot is not just proud of their country’s past, but also committed to shaping its future.
“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
No matter how much money you earn in your life, but the feeling of representing your country can not be compared with it.
I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation. One Nation Under God.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
– John Adams
Patriotism is not only about loving your country, it’s about being willing to sacrifice for it, to protect it and to serve it.
Patriotism is not a matter of blind loyalty, it’s a matter of critical engagement, asking questions and being willing to speak truth to power.
I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
– Andrew Carnegie
Loving one’s country is not just about feeling pride, it’s about taking action to make it a better place for all.
Patriotism is not about exclusion, it’s about inclusion and working to create a nation where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
– Nathan Hale
Patriotism is not about loving your country unconditionally, it’s about loving the ideals that it stands for and striving to live up to them.
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
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
– Julian Barnes
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
– G. Edward Griffin
Being patriotic is not just about having pride in one’s country, it’s about being willing to sacrifice for its betterment.
You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
– Malcolm X
To love one’s country is to work towards making it a place where everyone can thrive, not just a select few.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
– Gary Hart
Patriotism is not blindly following the government, but holding it accountable to protect the rights of its citizens.
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
– Jules Renard
True patriotism is not about blindly following one’s country, but about holding it accountable to the highest moral standards.
Patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
– Emma Goldman
Loving one’s country is not just about embracing its history, but also about shaping its destiny.
If you’re ashamed to stand by your colors, you better seek for another flag.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
– Winston Churchill
Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
– Emma Goldman
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
– Ernest Hemingway
Those who do not cherish affection for their parents, spouses and children and for their homes, villages and workplaces cannot love their country and fellow people; they can never become genuine patriots.
– Kim Jong-un