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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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?
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.
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.
I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.
We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
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!
I think my patriotism is strong enough to not be offended when somebody takes a knee during the anthem. That's not something I take personally.
The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
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?
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
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.
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.
Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.