Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Aaron McGruder

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Chester A. Arthur

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Chester A. Arthur

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Charles Farrar Browne

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Bill Maher

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

Bill O'Reilly

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

Benjamin Harrison

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Henry Louis Gates

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.