Patriotism is your love for nation. Being patriotic is always a good thing because you give preference to your country before anything else, just like our soldiers. Read this collection of patriotic quotes:

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai Stevenson

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

Anonymous

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

I think patriotism is like charity – it begins at home.

Henry James

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Indira Gandhi

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

Julian Barnes

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is Swarajya and the branches are Swadeshi and boycott.

Lala Lajpat Rai

If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants Food for the adults and Education for all.

Lala Lajpat Rai

I regard myself as a Soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

You give me your blood and I will give you Independence.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Pandit Nehru

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions… Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Ravindranath Tagore

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Stonewall Jackson

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

Bombs and pistols do not make. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.

Bhagat Singh

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

Bhagat Singh

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.

Bhagat Singh

Merciless and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Bhagat Singh

We will face the bullets of the enemy, for we are free and will remain free.

Chandra Shekhar Azad

We can’t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Charles F. Browne

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

Due to its rich culture and admire India as a teacher and we are its follower.

Dalai Lama

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

G. K. Chesterton

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

George William Curtis

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Howard Zinn

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Barack Obama

Patriotism is supporting your country all the your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus

Courage above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.

Thomas Paine

Patriotism means to stand by country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Theodore Roosevelt

My Patrotic heart beats saffron, white, green and navy blue.

Unknown

The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s Tree.

Thomas Campbell

Freedom is not given, It is taken.

Subhas Chandra Bose

A patriot shows his patriotism by his actions.

Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh

Fight for the country, Serve your motherland; But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Unknown

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

A politician will do anything to keep his job — even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

A man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

J. Horace McFarland

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Washington

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Coolidge

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life–one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

Bill Moyers

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

Anni Besant

Patriotism is not the same as nationalism, because love of country is not the same as worship of country.

John Chandler

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

In attaining our ideals, our means should be as pure as the end.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….

George Barnad Shaw

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Ronald Reagan

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

Hamilton Fish

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We have no national idea besides patriotism, and there can be no other.

Vladimir Putin

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is quite literally, a cult.

Micah Armstrong

Patriotism is the essential ingredient of nationhood.

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

All nations teach their children to be “patriotic”, and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Richard Aldington

Patriotism for me is when people put their ideas into the work. Your love for your country is only in your work.

Sudhir Mishra

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

Austin O’Malley

Inculcating patriotism is an important goal, but when it distorts the truth it becomes little more than a form of propaganda.

Walt Gardner

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Joseph Smith

Patriotism is easy to understand…. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is the first duty of every religion.

Mukhatar Abbas Naqvi

Patriotism is often an alibi to brigandage and enterprising criminality.

Binoy Kampmark

Patriotism is a narrow minded concept. It binds a nation in the bonds of love and loyalty. But it does not consider the international brotherhood of man.

V. P. Gautam

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson