Herb Galewitz - Patriotism: Quotations from Around the World

Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues... Deprived of a voice in legislation, obliged to submit to those laws which are imposed on us, is it not sufficient to make us indifferent to the public welfare? Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours. ABIGAIL ADAMS Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable, is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from a conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence. JOHN ADAMS And say not thou My country right or wrong, Nor shed thy blood for an unhallowed cause. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS If I have a wish dearer to my soul than that my ashes may be mingled with those of a Warren and a Montgomery, it is, that these American States will never cease to be free and independent.

The existence of such a government as ours, for any length of time, is a full proof of the general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people. What object more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind? SAMUEL ADAMS What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country. JOSEPH ADDISON Love of country is like love of womanhe loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. FELIX ADLER Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill. RICHARD ALDINGTON A wise mans country is the world.

ARISTIPPUS The country of every man is that one where he lives best. ARISTOPHANES The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support. WALTER BAGEHOT True patriots we; for be it understood,
We left our country for our countrys good. GEORGE BARRINGTON But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battles van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man! MICHAEL J. BARRY O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! KATHARINE LEE BATES Americahalf-brother of the world!with something good and bad of every land. PHILIP BAYLEY In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

AUGUST BEBEL What is subversive today will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow. LUCIUS BEEBE So strange is the transforming power of patriotic ardor that men shall almost covet disfigurement; and buoyant children shall pause in their noisy games, and with loving reverence honor those whose hands can work no more, and whose feet are no longer able to march... HENRY WARD BEECHER I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands: one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FRANCIS BELLAMY The most valorous and morally valuable war work is that of working with impossible people. ARNOLD BENNETT Today the horizons flame with war. It is no time for partisanship, say men.

Aye! it is the hour for the supremest partisanshipit is the hour for the partisanship of patriotism. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE Patriot, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors. Patriotism, n.

Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnsons famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect... I beg to submit that it is the first. Un-American, adj.

Wicked, intolerable, heathenish. Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for ones country. AMBROSE BIERCE Not by speeches and decisions of majorities will the greatest problems of the time be decided... but by iron and blood. OTTO VON BISMARCK My patriotism stops short of my stomach.

OTTO VON BISMARCK
( on being offered a glass of German champagne ) Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government. HUGO L. BLACK There is no Republican, no Democrat, on the Fourth of Julyall are Americans. All feel that their country is greater than party. JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE Patriotism must be founded on great principles and supported by great virtue. HENRY ST.

JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE I reject, I utterly reject, I denounce, as subversive of everything which we Americans hold sacred, the theory that in fighting Communism and Fascism, you must surrender Americanism. WILLIAM E. BORAH Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. He who is proud of his country will be particularly cautious not to do anything which is calculated to disgrace it. GEORGE BORROW America for all its fits and starts of memory, never quite forgets those who hold the country to its grandest, most encompassing possibilities. W. C. C.

BRANN Patriotism is a mighty precious thing when it costs nothing, but the mass of mankind consider it a very foolish thing when it curtails their self-indulgence. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie the doing of ones duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion. W. C. BROWNELL Under a despotic government there is no such thing as patriotic feeling, and its place is supplied in other ways, by private interest, public fame, and devotion to ones chief.

LA BRUYRE Ah, never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave, Gushed, warm with hope and valor yet, Upon the soil they fought to save! WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT The Beautiful, the Sacred
Which, in all climes, men that have hearts adore
By the great title of their mother country! E. G. BULWER-LYTTON Off with your hat as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say Youre man enough for a tear in your eye That you will not wipe away. H. C. BUNNER In general, despite all the talk about freedom, peoples and governments demand unlimited state power internally.

JAKOB BURCKHARDT So to be patriots as not to forget that we are gentlemen. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. EDMUND BURKE Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe;
Libertys in every blow!
Forward! Let us do or die! Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highland forever I love! ROBERT BURNS Were we sincere in our allegiance to the Confederate States? Yes. Does this affect our loyalty to the government of the United States? Not at all. Loyalty, free and honest loyalty to the government as it is, is not repugnant to a past loyalty to that adolescent nation whose star shone with abnormal brilliancy for a few short years, and then vanished into the blackness of eternal night. CHARLES M.

BUSBEE We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. GEORGE W. BUSH Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. Yesonethe firstthe lastthe best The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dare not hate, Bequeath, the name of Washington To make men blush there was but one! He who loves not his country, can love nothing.

For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON The religion of Hell is patriotism and the government is an enlightened democracy. JAMES BRANCH CABELL Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. JOHN C. CALHOUN The patriots bloods the seed of Freedoms tree. THOMAS CAMPBELL I should like to be able to love my country and to love justice. ALBERT CAMUS A steady patriot of the world alone,