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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. -- Mark Twain
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. -- Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents. -- Jesse Ventura
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. -- James Bryce
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. -- Michael Ignatieff
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
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. -- Greil Marcus
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 considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? -- Wallace Shawn
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. -- Ambrose Bierce
Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this. -- Veerappa Moily
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. -- Alexander Hamilton
Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America. -- Jeff Denham
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy. -- Ann Coulter
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. -- Cory Booker
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
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
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. -- Ricardo Montalban
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such. -- Ellen Key
Patriotism means loving our country, not the government. -- Mike Cloud
A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism. -- George H. W. Bush
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket... -- Smedley Butler
Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it. -- Jacob M. Appel
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. -- Julian Barnes
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences. -- John F. Kerry
What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country. -- Edward Snowden
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. -- Paul Monroe
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. -- J. Horace McFarland
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. -- Mark Twain
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? -- Howard Zinn
I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions. -- Jose Rizal
I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment. -- Strive Masiyiwa
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... -- George Bernard Shaw
We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important. -- James Green
It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism? -- James Stewart
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who think they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries. -- Andy Rooney
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
Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich. -- Gene Weingarten
America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten. -- Tom Daschle
The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed. -- William Jennings Bryan

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