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" It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. "

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" Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. "

Michael Ignatieff

" Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism. "

" 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. "

Winston Churchill

" Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. "

" The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. "

" Americans never quit. "

Douglas MacArthur

" Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" 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. "

Joseph P. Bradley

" Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. "

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

" Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. "

" When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. "

" Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. "

" Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. "

" The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. "

" When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien. "

" My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country. "

Walter Annenberg

" Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! "

" The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle. "

Lincoln Steffens

" Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing. "

" If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. "

" For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. "

Franklin Knight Lane

" I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. "

Antonio Lobo Antunes

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

Henry IV of England

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

" A nation is the same people living in the same place. "

" If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it. "

" 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

" The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. "

George McGovern

" 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. "