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Quotes about Patriotism

If God is just, I tremble for my country.
- Thomas Jefferson
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
- Madeleine Albright
All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.
- Frederick Buechner
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- Frederick Douglass
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
- William Hazlitt
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
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
- Madeleine Albright
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
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
As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.
- William Wallace
America is the greatest country in the world.
- Muhammad Ali
My dad's about character and bipartisanship and something greater than yourself and believing in this country and believing in the fact that we as Americans can still come together, and that's something I grew up in and feeds me every day.
- Meghan McCain