Patriotism Quotes

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity."

James Bryce

"I love my country too much to be a nationalist."

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

Albert Einstein

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Edward Abbey

"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."

Thomas Campbell

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

Elmer Davis

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."

Woodrow Wilson

"We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union."

Rufus Choate

"Love of country is like love of woman – he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

Felix Adler

"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."

Edith Cavell

"Our country is the world – our countrymen are all mankind."

William Lloyd Garrison

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."

William Cowper Brann

"Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love."

Giuseppe Mazzini

"The love of country is the first virtue in a civilized man."

"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!"

Stephen Decatur

"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."

John Dickinson

"For the next fifty years let this alone be our keynote – this, our great Mother India."