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" Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride. "

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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" Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. "

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

" We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. "

" 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. "

" To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about. "

Joseph M. Kyrillos

" To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. "

N. R. Narayana Murthy

" Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. "

" Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. "

George S. Patton

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

Henry IV of England

" It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. "

Arthur C. Clarke

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

" Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. "

" Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. "

" 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

" Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! "

Albert Einstein

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

" My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. "

Frederick Reines

" Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. "

" I have been with Donald for 18 years, and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism because, like me, he loves this country so much. "

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

" 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

" Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such. "

" I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. "

George Galloway

" We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. "

Francois Hollande

" America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. "

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

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

" Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. "

" No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. "