142 private quotes tagged patriotism

“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.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.” — Michael D. Higgins

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“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

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“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

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“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” — George McGovern

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“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!” — O. Henry

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“I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.” — Jane Addams

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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.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.” — Francois Hollande

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“These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.” — Michael N. Castle

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“One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.” — Scott Ritter

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“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.” — Chaim Potok

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“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

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“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.” — Earl Warren

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

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“It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.” — Prescott Bush

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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.” — Bob Dylan

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“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” — Clarence Darrow

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“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.” — Bill Vaughan

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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.” — Malcolm X

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“I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.” — Eugene V. Debs

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“Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.” — Mike Ferguson

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