Top 494 Patriotism Quotes

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

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

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

David Hume

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Chiang Kai-shek

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

George Galloway

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

Eric Hobsbawm

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Alexander Pope

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Taylor Branch

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