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.
– George McGovern
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- “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to
- We’re encouraged to believe that it’s okay for the Lottery to rob us blind because so much of the money is going to good causes. – Derek McGovern
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw
- Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. – Felix Adler
- I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. – George McGovern
- Very deep, very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? – Thomas Mann
- 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. – George William
- 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. – George William Curtis
- It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. – J. Horace McFarland