#patriotism

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

— Clarence Darrow

#anywhere #else #hates #injustice #land

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#american #american people #anniversary #beginning #first

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#founded #great #must #principals #supported

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism. ↗

— John Bolton

#antithetical #call #career #fundamentally #help

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#attack #become #country #cushion #dumb

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. ↗

— Mark Twain

#about #holler #hollering #knowing #loudest

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#nazi #patriotism #pride #virtue #war

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. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#cruel #founded #greater #more #power

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#during #even #guise #hatred #masquerade

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#duly #gentlemen #great #great deal #patriotism