#patriotism

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

— Bertrand Russell

#kill #killed #reasons #trivial #willingness

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ↗

— William Shenstone

#bear #country #foreign #increasing #love

We need to revitalize the American spirit. People are always asking ‘What would the founding fathers do,’ but I have yet to witness a single séance. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #patriotism #funny

We fell in love like the Fourth of July. But there was nothing red, white, and blue about it, because we fell in love in England, despite the fact that the colors on their flag are also red, white, and blue.
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— Jarod Kintz

#patriotic #patriotism #love

One nation, under God, with consciousness – the practical man serves the highest abstraction with juggling training. ↗

— Bauvard

#consciousness #funny #god #humor #juggling

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#patriotism #superiority #love

I'd like to see a flag made not out of stars and stripes, but rather fingers and knuckles, so that it could really wave in the wind. It would be the most welcoming flag in all the world. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fingers #flag #global #globalism #patriotic

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. ↗

— George Orwell

#change

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

— Ho Chi Minh

#communism #inspired #me

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#patriotism #trials #love