Patriotism has always been defined as love of one’s country or zeal in the defence of the interests of one’s country

1. I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff

2. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

3. This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill

4. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

5. 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

6. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

7. To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
Pauline Hanson

8. You'Re A Grand Old Flag, You'Re A High Flying Flag, And Forever In Peace May You Wave
Anonymous

9. Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

10. Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.
Robert Santos

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

12. It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

13. 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

14. It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
Eric Hobsbawm

15. If you are ashamed to stand by your colours, you had better seek another flag.
Anonymous

16. Patriotism is the religion of hell.
James Branch Cabell

17. Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than.
Abraham Lincoln

18. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

21. I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Thomas Roosevelt

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

23. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

24. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

25. Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.
Rocky Anderson

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

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

28. The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals

29. 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

30. Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Bill Kristol

31. My patriotic heart beats red, white and blue
Anonymous

32. I think patriotism is like charity it begins at home
Anonymous

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33. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

34. Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan

35. Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.
John Acton

36. Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Ron Paul

37. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them.
Albert Einstein

38. Thousands laid down their lives so that our country is breathing this day Never forget their sacrifice
Anonymous

39. A man is a patriot if his heart beats true to his country.
Charles Jefferson

40. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

41. I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

42. It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind
Anonymous

43. One Flag, One Land, One Heart, One Hand, One Nation, Evenmore!!.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

44. The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine

45. He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert G. Ingersoll

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

47. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

48. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse Ventura

49. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

51. Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
John Adams

52. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

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

54. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It doesn't mean to stand by the president or any other public official.
Theodore Roosevelt

55. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan

56. Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi

57. There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn

58. 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

59. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity. Rabindranath Tagore

60. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
Anonymous

61. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn

62. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

63. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

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