Patriotism quotes

“There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.”
Mary Tyler Moore

“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
Tom Hooper

“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”
Tom Hooper

“That's my mother's grave out there, Ruth. I planted them vines on the porch. I'll live here until I die... sooner or later. However, as long as I live, I'll fight the whole town for the right to die here.”
George Segal - Matt Weaver

“I once fought for that flag; I'll not fire on it.”
Lionel Barrymore - Sen. Jackson McCanles

“Patriotism exists because people like you and people like me need a higher cause. Something bigger than us.”
Michael Keaton - Stan Hurley

“When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates; and the name on the front, is a hell of a lot more important, than the one on the back.”
Kurt Russell - Herb Brooks

“- Dominika Egorova: Are you a patriot?
- Nate Nash: No.
- Dominika Egorova: Why do you do what you do?
- Nate Nash: It beats selling tires.
- Dominika Egorova: Have you ever sold tires?
- Nate Nash: No.
- Dominika Egorova: Then you can't know, can you?”
Jennifer Lawrence - Dominika Egorova
Joel Edgerton - Nate Nash

“If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
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Bob Hope

“- Clark Griswold: There it is, kids, my motherland.
- Rusty Griswold: Dad, Grandma's from Chicago.
- Clark Griswold: Shut up, Russ.”

Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold
Jason Lively - Rusty Griswold

“- Jane Marke: Your country needs you, Mr. Cage. The Triple-X program needs you. It's time to be a patriot.
- Xander Cage: By whose definition? The last time I was patriotic, I got three strikes. And there was only one man who believed in the underdog. Patriotism is dead. There's only rebels and tyrants now.
- Jane Marke: So, which are you?
-...” (continue) (continue reading)
Toni Collette - Jane Marke
Vin Diesel - Xander Cage

“'High Noon' was the most un-American thing I have ever seen in my whole life. The last thing in the picture is old Coop putting the United States marshal’s badge under his foot and stepping on it. I’ll never regret having run out of this country.”
John Wayne

“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”
Burt Lancaster

“It won't be long now, gentlemen. And it won't be very pleasant. But such is the price of patriotism.”

Peter Firth - Colonel Andrew Brynner

“I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it.”
Johnny Depp

“- Jack Shaw: Don't think of it as cheating on your wife. Think of it as... fuckin' for your flag.
- Amos: When in doubt, close your eyes and think of England.”
Donald Sutherland - Jack Shaw
Ben Kingsley - Amos

“Patriotism swells in the heart of the American bear.”

Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear

“It was an opportunity for me to defend America. The country which has given freedom to me and to my family. And it is an honor to fight for that freedom.”

Laz Alonso - Ramon Escobar

“- Silva: Just look at you, barely held together by your pills and your drink.
- James Bond: Don't forget my pathetic love of country.”
Javier Bardem - Silva
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“Below the skin of history are London's veins. These symbols, the mitre, the pentacle star, even someone as ignorant and degenerate as you can sense that they course with energy and meaning. I am that meaning. I am that energy.”
Sir Ian Holm - Sir William Gull

“- Jack O'Donnell: Carter said you were a great American.
- Tony Mendez: A great American what?
- Jack O'Donnell: He didn't say.”
Bryan Cranston - Jack O'Donnell
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.”
Walter Salles

“You can die for your country, I'm gonna live for mine.”
Ben Foster - Matt 'Axe' Axelson

“- Sgt. Hastings: My men are soldiers in the United States Cavalry! And they are prepared to die for their country!
- Beauchamp: With all due respect, sir, you're out of your fuckin' mind.”
Adam Baldwin - Sgt. Hastings
James Oscar Lee - Beauchamp

“- Bill Hafner: I didn't know that you were a flag-waver, Jones.
- Jones: I care... I don't care for a lot of it, but what I care for, I care for a lot. You know what I mean? I been a dedicated soldier for twenty three years. Does that tell you something? Hmm?
- Bill Hafner: Yeah, I came in the Marine Corps when I was 17 years old. It's all I...” (continue) (continue reading)

R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner
Albert Popwell - Jones