Patriotic Quotes
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I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
Isaac Rosenberg
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I believe American corporations that have gotten so much from our country should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them are, but too many aren't. It's wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. And I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again.
Hillary Clinton
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Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
George Washington
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
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The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies.
Dmitri Alperovitch
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I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
Cary Fukunaga
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This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.
Geert Wilders
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Before then when a party won, its workers got everything in sight. That was somethin’ to make a man patriotic.
George W. Plunkitt
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There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.
Wolf Blitzer
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I'm an Australian. And I'm speaking generally here, but Australians in general aren't patriotic or nationalistic. Our country was built by immigrants. So, by my experience, I've seen the way immigration has transformed nations. They are the key people who quite literally build civilizations, be it culturally or musically.
John Hillcoat
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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
Thomas Sowell
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All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
Richard Aldington
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We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.
Evan Bayh
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As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
Evan Bayh
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
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A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.
William Z. Foster
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
Nan Goldin