Patriots Quotes

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“...These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.)”
― Nikolas Schreck

“Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but a state of mind -- a reflection of our own personal sense of worth, and respect for our roots. Love of country plays a part, but it's not merely love. Neither is it pride, although pride too is one of the ingredients.

Patriotism is a commitment to what is best inside us all. And it's a recognition of that wondrous common essence in our greater surroundings -- our school, team, city, state, our immediate society -- often ultimately delineated by our ethnic roots and borders... but not always.

Indeed, these border lines are so fluid... And we do not pay allegiance as much as we resonate with a shared spirit.

We all feel an undeniable bond with the land where we were born. And yet, if we leave it for another, we grow to feel a similar bond, often of a more complex nature. Both are forms of patriotism -- the first, involuntary, by birth, the second by choice.

Neither is less worthy than the other.

But one is earned.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Patriots built Auschwitz. You start believing that “my country wrong or right” shit, and it always ends up at the same place: a pit filled with bones.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.”
― Samuel R. Young Jr.

“Well, you know what Stalin said: it’s not who votes that counts. It’s who counts the votes.”
― James Allen Moseley, The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream

“Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.”
― Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.”
― Gina Barreca

“If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in many parts of the world today. It is that history and experience that reveals to us the dark range of our possible futures. A nationalist will say that "it can't happen here," which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Ray plunged into sobering thought. What would have happened if he had, by some cruel twist of fate, got hitched to this lunatic female? He could just see himself laying his head gently on his pillow, thinking, “O woman! When pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou,” when suddenly into the bedroom would leap this female Blackbeard, a parrot on her shoulder and a dagger in her teeth. He shuddered.”
― James Allen Moseley, The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream

“Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“You’d have a list of notes of things that the player did and they’d want you to do it that way in practice. So they’d say, ‘He’s a guy who bites really hard on play action, so every time you see this play, do it that way. You want to give the quarterback a good look. You’re not reading it as you, you’re reading it as them. Play how they play and not how you play.’ Now, you’ve got to learn all your stuff, too, because you want to be on the team. So you’re watching film of you being him and you being you.”

- Matt Chatham”
― Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football

“It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.”
― Mike Klepper

“Your world needs heroes. Be Heroes!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“So I saw someone with one of those "home of the free because of the brave" shirts a few days ago. I almost laughed. I tried not to because of the upcoming Veterans day… I guess. Home of the Slaves because of the cowards, I think would be more appropriate. Look at these American wars. Vietnam… Iraq… is that really the “brave” thing to do? Beating up on little countries cuz u’r trying to look brave huh? Cowards. And then they tell me to go work at Kroger? Are you insane? Don’t you know my fucking SAT score, you dumb fuck? Why don’t you go and invade Croatia or something instead. Idiots.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“Sometimes there are fine lines between people who are considered "patriots" and those who are considered "terrorists".”
― Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place.”
― Mike Klepper

“Love opens the most impossible gates in the world. Feel, therefore, my would-be patriots. Do you feel? Do you feel that millions of your sisters and brothers are starving today and have been in such condition for ages? Do you feel my dear soldiers? Do you feel that the light of truth has become much scarier to the society than the darkness of ignorance? Does this not make you restless? Does this not make you sleepless? Has it not gone into your blood yet, coursing through your veins, becoming resonant with your heart-beat? Are you not yet seized with the one idea of lifting the misery from the society? Have you not been yet immersed in this idea, so much so that, you have forgotten your name, your fame, your property and even your very physical existence as a flesh and blood being? Have you done that yet? That is the very first step of the real education my friend. Your world needs heroes. Be Heroes!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“I deflate quicker than a terrible Patriots joke.”
― Alison Hendricks, Strong Side

“remember you must always put your country first, your family second, and yourself third.”
― Prince Serge Oblensky, One Man In His Time: The Memoirs Of Serge Obolensky

“they call themselves patriots and fathers of the homeland. What idea of the homeland can they have? One that is egotistical, which begins and ends with them. They are everything.”
― Luisa Capetillo, A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out / Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer

“Paranoia, soaring paranoia. It's the people who are loyalest to the Village [the State] who are most susceptible. They begin to think everyone is betraying the cause but themselves.”
― Thomas M. Disch, The Prisoner

“Brains drain from the country when the country drains from the brain.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov