«Patriots’ Day»

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.

George McGovern

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

Bill Vaughan

’My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ’My mother, drunk or sober.’

Gilbert K. Chesterton

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

Americans never quit.

Douglas MacArthur

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Bill Maher

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Ronald Reagan

There’s intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Michael Ignatieff

When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... ’thank you for your service.’ ’Stars Earn Stripes’ is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

Mark Burnett

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Stonewall Jackson

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Gary Hart

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

Jesse Ventura

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

J. Horace McFarland

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Michael Ignatieff

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Bruce Springsteen

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai Stevenson

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Oliver Tambo

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.

Francis John McConnell

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

Bill Maher

America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Allen Boyd

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Barack Obama