The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes all of us defending the United States of America.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So you know I think as far as our country goes we need more people who will do that.

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

In a sad twist of fate the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot he will never flatter his country in any respect.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace and the people whom they represent with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs urging them forward to war.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

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

The sight of nature fascinates the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

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

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

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.