Patriot Sayings and Quotes – Inspire Quotes and Sayings
Patriot Sayings and Quotes
“Patriots don’t let their nation default.” —Gary Ackerman
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” —Oscar Wilde
“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.” —Helen Caldicott
“The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.” —Thomas Campbell
“True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.” —William Cowper
“Those who love their country never wish to rule it.” —Abraham H. Miller
“The essence of patriotism is the sacrifice of personal interest to public welfare.
“Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” —Mark Twain
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” —Bertrand Russell
“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.” —Gina Barreca
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” —Clarence Darrow
“Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.” —Tao Lin
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” —Edward Abbey
“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” —Bertrand Russell
“A steady patriot of the world alone, the friend of every country but his own.” —George Canning
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” —Aristotle
“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.” —Julian Barnes
“The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.” —Alexander Pope
“You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.” —George Bernard Shaw
“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.” —William E. Vaughan
“Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.” —Aldo Leopold
“If one’s patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one’s country.” —Paul Monroe
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” —William Shakespeare
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” —Thomas Jefferson
“To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God’s creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
“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
“A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot’s loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.” —Paul Craig Roberts
“Patriotism is not dying for one’s country, it is living for one’s country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it’s better.” —Agnes Macphail
“Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.” —David Ehrenfeld
“Patriotism is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a web of lies and falsehoods, robbing us of our dignity and increasing our arrogance and conceit.” —Emma Goldman
“Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy’s safe place.” —Mike Klepper
“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
“This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.” —Albert Einstein
“True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation’s ways of justice.” —Robert Mcafee Brown
“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 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
“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.” —Francis Scott Key
“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” —Mark Twain
“Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one’s country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.
“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.” —Aldous Huxley
“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
“Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” —James Bryce
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.” —Leo Toystoy
“Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.” —Edward Snowden
“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.” —Sydney J. Harris
“It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country’s liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.” —John Boyle O’Reilly
“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