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" 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

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" No matter where people stand on the policies that led to the conflicts, Americans recognize the depth of sacrifice and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. Everyone agrees these heroes deserve every advantage we can give them. "

" There's a fine line between patriotism and corn. "

David L. Wolper

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy. "

" The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. "

Bernadine Dohrn

" The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! "

" It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America. "

Marquis de Lafayette

" 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. "

" 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

" A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. "

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

" I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs. "

Marquis de Lafayette

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

" Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America. "

" 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. "

" Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired. "

" 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. "

" One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore. "

Joseph M. Kyrillos

" 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. "

" I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. "

Michael Ignatieff

" I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. "

" Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. "

" They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. "

Henry A. Wallace

" 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 don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition. "

Palaniappan Chidambaram

" Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. "

" There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. "

Alexander Hamilton