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 feel like I've never had a home you know? I feel related to the country to this country and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place a place where you can reckon with yourself.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent hardworking honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
There is a vast world of work out there in this country where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father the mother and the teacher.
A man's country is not a certain area of land of mountains rivers and woods but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their head or the care that they need when they come home.
Politics is too partisan and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it we have given it to the rightful people Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so but they must do so on the basis of equality.
We are a big country with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent hardworking honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head John Conyers says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it signed by a president who smokes funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
I was born in the Bronx and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
In the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4000 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty you've had it in this country.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
I have a lot of boyfriends I want you to write that. Every country I visit I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country and they are the reason why it is so expensive or one of the reasons it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so one could blame the companies but really economically they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
In every country and every age the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Remember half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
The World is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
In most places in the country voting is looked upon as a right and a duty but in Chicago it's a sport.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
America has the best doctors the best nurses the best hospitals the best medical technology the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
Sadly embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.