Patriotism Quotes

The country of every man is that one where he lives best. (Aristophanes, 444-380 b.c.)

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. (William C. Brann, 1855-1898)

He who loves not his country can love nothing. (Lord Byron, 1788-1824)

Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. (Stephan Decatur, 1799-1820)

My affections are first for my own country, and then, generally, for all mankind. (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine, 1737-1809)

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, never! Never! Never! (William Pitt, 1708-1778)

We should behave toward our country as women behave toward the men they love. A loving wife will do everything for her husband except stop criticizing and trying to improve him. We should cast the same affectionate but sharp glance at our country. (John B. Priestley, 1894-1984)

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives? Whatever the land may be, he owes to it the most precious thing possessed by man, the morality of his actions and the love of virtue. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778)

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970)

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. (Carl Schurz, 1829-1906)

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. (William Shenstone, 1714-1763)

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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