Quotes about Patriotism

Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.

As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious