Steve Martin Quotes

I remain attached to my nation.

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

Senator, I do not believe you have ever taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States with fewer reservations than I have or would now. Nor do I believe you are more attached to the theories and practices of Americanism than I am. I rest my answer on that statement.

My country? My country is the United States.

I can't be against my people.

My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

My first allegiance must stay where it has always been, to the people of the United States, my own people.

With all her faults she is my country still.

Our economy of allegiance simply is not infinitely expandable. If we become more Virginian or Georgian, surely we will also feel more remote, less responsible for the poor of Kentucky or of the ghettoes of Chicago. If we became more Virginian, we would be less American.

You can serve with anybody for the good of America ... You've never turned your country down. This is not me. This is your country.

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.

The primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to country…. It is exhibited by an absolute and unreserved obedience to his country’s call.