• "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency." - Douglas MacArthur Tweet
• "There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism." - Michael Ignatieff Tweet
• "Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?" - Wallace Shawn Tweet
• "Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country." - Sinclair Lewis Tweet
• "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!" - O. Henry Tweet
• "The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise." - Herbert Croly Tweet
• "Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose." - Frank Knox Tweet
• "We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense." - Barack Obama Tweet
• "We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt." - Francois Hollande Tweet
• "I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together." - Parker Stevenson Tweet