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But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires 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.

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.