Patriotism Quotes

Patriotism is the devotion that a countryman feels for the soil that he or she belongs to. The country that one belongs to holds a special place in one’s heart. A true patriot fights for his motherland. If some foreign attackers come to conquer their nation then they are even ready to lay down their lives to save their motherland. In today’s world it means more than fighting wars; it also entails contributing to the country’s development, paying taxes and obeying laws and being a good citizen. Read the famous quotations and sayings about patriotism to know more.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal after wards.
Death Blood Peace Country
Theodore Roosevelt

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Truth
Bill Maher

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
America Greatness Nation
Alexis de Tocqueville

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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Life Wars God
Chris Kyle

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And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism.
Observation Opinion Country Terrorism
Osama bin Laden

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When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
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Chris Kyle

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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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Harry S. Truman

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

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I have been with Donald for 18 years, and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism because, like me, he loves this country so much.
Love Country
Melania Trump

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Liberty Support Success Success
John F. Kennedy

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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

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Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
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Ted Cruz

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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Country
Bill Maher

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Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Good Love
Cory Booker

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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
God Nation
Ronald Reagan

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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
Family Community Faith
Ted Cruz

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I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.
Respect Moon Togetherness
Cory Booker

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Americans never quit.
Douglas MacArthur

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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Seasons Country
Alexander Hamilton

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Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Country Wars Home
Cory Booker

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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Thomas Paine

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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Nothing Beauty
Bob Dylan

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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.
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Malcolm X

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To apply Kim Jong Il's patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the General's intentions and desires for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of all generations to come and to carry on all work for achieving the prosperity of the country in the way he did.
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Kim Jong-un

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Geography Soul
George Santayana

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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.
Love Freedom
Barack Obama

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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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Ulysses S. Grant

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Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
Love Women
Cory Booker

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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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Joe Biden

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Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
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Bhagat Singh

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Mark Twain

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Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children, the love for one's own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one's country and fellow people.
Love People Home
Kim Jong-un

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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Wars
Mick Jagger

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When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Country Wars Home
Cory Booker

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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Fear Government
Douglas MacArthur

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
Love Country
Ronald Reagan

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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Calvin Coolidge

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Country
George Bernard Shaw

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Virtues
Oscar Wilde

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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Life America
Henry James

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Good Rest
Voltaire

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I think Americans are very patriotic.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Duty
Dave Barry

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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
Best Music
Bruce Springsteen

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However British you may be, I am more British still.
Henry James

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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
People Courage Wars
Russell Crowe

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

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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.
Greatness Feelings Nation
Aldous Huxley

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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Abraham Lincoln

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The great Comrade Kim Jong Il was an outstanding leader who, true to the President's great idea, developed Chongryon into a pacesetter of patriotism, into a model of patriotic loyalty to the motherland, and into a prototype body of overseas compatriots.
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Kim Jong-un

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When I deployed to Iraq with my fellow soldiers, putting our lives on the line for our country, no one in the media questioned our patriotism because of our religion.
Country Media Religion
Tulsi Gabbard

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America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
Spirit
Elon Musk

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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Nation
Dale Carnegie

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Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building.
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Kim Jong-un

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

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Winston Churchill

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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Country
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Country
Lord Byron

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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 patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
Truth
George Clooney

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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Abraham Lincoln

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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George Bernard Shaw

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It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.
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Kamala Harris

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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
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Richard M. Nixon

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The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
Caitlyn Jenner

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I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.
Mitt Romney

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I think patriotism, by its very definition, is love of country. But we seem to have become a country where the highest thing we're reaching for is tolerance.
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Cory Booker

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