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" I can't tell you how lucky I feel. I've gotten to work Peter Facinelli 'American Odyssey,' and I got to do 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' - which really gave me such a tremendous amount of pride and patriotism, and it was very close to my heart. I've really had such great support, so many great teachers, and so many wonderful people surrounding me. "

Elena Kampouris

Support

Heart

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

" Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. "

" If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. "

Tommy Lee Jones

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

" I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. "

" The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league. "

" 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. "

" Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny. "

" Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom. "

" Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. "

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

" The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. "

" I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' "

" But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore. "

" It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis. "

" We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. "

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

" I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to. "

A. Philip Randolph

Loyalty

Justice

" I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment. "

" I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush. "

" Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this. "

" 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Think

Saying

Patriotism

" I've watched my mom take a plain piece of paper and create something beautiful out of it, and I think that kind of manifested for me in taking a character from the page and bringing that to life. "

" My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. "

" It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. "

Robert Walpole

Patriotism

Patriot