Patriotism Quotes

"I love America more than any other country in this world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

James Baldwin

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause."

Homer

"No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own."

Seneca

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

Guy de Maupassant

"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."

Bill Vaughan

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from."

Carl Sandburg

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"A country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The country is the idea which rises upon that foundation."

Giuseppe Mazzini

"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."

William Havard

"O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!"

Katharine Lee Bates

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

Emma Lazarus

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."

Thomas Jefferson

"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"I am not a Virginian, but an American."

Patrick Henry

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home."

Oliver Goldsmith

"What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!"

Joseph Addison

"'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

Francis Scott Key

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

George Jean Nathan

"Every blow struck at me today will be a nail in the coffin of British rule in India."

Lala Lajpat Rai

"I will face the enemy's bullets; I have been free, and I will always remain free."

Chandrashekhar Azad

"When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice."

Sarojini Naidu

"What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow."

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

"I shall not give up my Jhansi."

Rani Lakshmibai