There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children, the love for one's own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one's country and fellow people.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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 saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Americans never quit.

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.

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

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

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

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

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

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.

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

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

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

'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.'

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

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

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

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.