181 quotes found
“Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.”
“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.”
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
“1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.”
“Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.”
“I am not a Virginian but an American.”
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!”
“Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.”
“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”
“I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.”
“I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the h...”
“When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.”
“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”
“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression o...”
“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen o...”
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores...”
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
“I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.”
“Moreover, there was what Amy called “the cocksuckers’ contingent of the country”—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too...”
“The real propaganda is what—if we are genuinely a living member of a nation—we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind ...”
