“Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.”
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (2012)
“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…”
The World (15 November 1893)
1890s
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Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
The Law of Nations (1758)
Original: (fr) car si vous y etes ne d'un etranger, ce pays sera seulement le lieu de votre naissance, sans etre votre patrie
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(1922–2012) Cambodian King
As quoted by David Ablin and Marlowe Hood (March 14, 1985), "The Lesser Evil: An Interview with Norodom Sihanouk" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1985/mar/14/the-lesser-evil-an-interview-with-norodom-sihanouk/?pagination=false, The New York Review of Books.
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“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.”
Oliver Goldsmith
(1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 73.
Calvin Coolidge
(1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Toleration and Liberalism (1925)
Context: The war brought a great test of our experiment in amalgamating these varied factors into a real Nation, with the ideals and aspirations of a united people. None was excepted from the obligation to serve when the hour of danger struck. The event proved that our theory had been sound. On a solid foundation of a national unity there had been erected a superstructure which in its varied parts had offered full opportunity to develop all the range of talents and genius that had gone into its making. Well-nigh all the races, religions, and nationalities of the world were represented in the armed forces of this nation, as they were in the body of our population. No man's patriotism was impugned or service questioned because of his racial origin, his political opinion, or his religious convictions. Immigrants and sons of immigrants from the central European countries fought side by side with those who descended from the countries which were our allies; with the sons of equatorial Africa; and with the red men of our own aboriginal population, all of them equally proud of the name Americans.
“Disease is a conviction, and I was born with that conviction.”
La malattia è una convinzione ed io nacqui con quella convinzione.
Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), P. 11; p. 14.
Anthony Burgess
(1917–1993) English writer
Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
Dana Perino
(1972) Former White House Press Secretary
Press Briefing, referring to the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, February 12, 2008 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/02/on-cusp-of-sena/ http://mediamatters.org/blog/200802130006
The Penultimate Peril (2005)