It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.