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

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

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

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

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.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

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

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

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

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

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

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.

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

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.