I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding. Phil Klay Patriotism
Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny. Cory Booker Patriotism
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. Janet Suzman Patriotism
My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down. Chesty Puller Patriotism
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. Michael Ignatieff Patriotism
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? Bill Maher Patriotism
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. George Canning Patriotism
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. John Avlon Patriotism
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. Frederick Reines Patriotism
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. Todd Gitlin Patriotism
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle. Lincoln Steffens Patriotism
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. Claire Danes Patriotism
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. Henry James Patriotism
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. Alexander Pope Patriotism
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 Patriotism
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. William Shenstone Patriotism
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
But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore. Jack Bowman Patriotism
It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. Prescott Bush Patriotism