Patriotism Quotes

“The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.”

— Michael Mandelbaum

“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”

— George Santayana

“Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.”

— Adam Carolla

“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!”

— Albert Einstein

“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

“Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.”

— Denis Diderot

“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”

— George Orwell

“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”

— George Jean Nathan

“I want to light the lights of patriotism.”

— Lech Walesa

“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?”

— Bill Maher

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

— Blaise Pascal

“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”

— Tom Hooper

“We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

— Dave Barry

“There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.”

— Bruce Springsteen