I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.Michael D. Higgins
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.Mark Twain
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.Erma Bombeck
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.Theodore Roosevelt
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.Abraham Lincoln
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.John Paul Jones
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.Adlai Stevenson II
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.George William Curtis
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
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.Herbert Croly
The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.Michael Mandelbaum
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.Douglas MacArthur
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.Voltaire
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.Ernest Hemingway