Loyalty to the Nation Quotes

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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 the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

I did not get an opportunity to die for the country, but I have got an opportunity to live for the country.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'

I am proud to be from an ideology. Our ideology is that the Nation is bigger than party. We will live and die for the nation. Our ideology is not about aspiring for posts, it's based of sacrifice.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

In right and service to their noble country.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.