What is your definition of patriotism?

Question

mine is standing up for your country even if your govt is wrong

Answer 1

Quotes regarding Patriotism
"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"
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

Ben Franklin quote
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Hutchins - Great Books, 1954

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Edward Abbey, Patriotism quotes:
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Declaration of Independence, Patriotism quotes:
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Patriotism quotes:
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

Thomas Jefferson, Patriotism quotes:
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Sidney Hook, Patriotism quotes:
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Answer 2

I think the technical definition is simply loyalty to one's country. However, I think that patriotism is unwarranted when the government of one's country behaves in a unethical or immoral way. Some of the people in Hitler's Germany would have considered themselves patriots for following his lead. With that said, I don't think patriotism is always a good thing. In fact, it usually isn't because it does not consider what is good for all of humanity just what is good for a particular country. Too often, patriotism encourages blind loyalty, even when that loyalty is not deserved.

Answer 3

Mine is buying the biggest SUV I can find (for those harrowing trips to the office cubicle or grocery store) ; fill it up with the slop we import from the mideast ( I keep several world-wide economies going by paying for both sides of the war ); making certain that I vote a straight republikan ticket at the polls; and , I forgot to mention earlier, making sure my yellow " I SUPPORT THE TROOPS " magnetic ribbon is properly affixed to my great big SUV. Now how's that for being a patriot?....

Answer 4

Patriorism is everything a citizen would do to bring good to his/her country as a whole, not pandering to specific group, interest, culture, or race to cause chaos and separation in that nation or to stir up the support of the same hellish cultures attributing to the suffering of their ancestors by their lands of origin.

People who have suffered or have ancestors who have suffered the filth of nations of their original roots should avoid the mistake of instiling those cultural distastes from the lanfs of their roots, but support the sole national need, culture, philosophy, laws, custom of the adopted country for the good of all, not for the good of those creating stereotypes to separate. Patriotism means being patriotic to the nation of citizenship and making that nation a better place for all without jeopadizing the happiness of one group for another's, less they should be denounced as traitors to that nation.

Those who create wars within their nation are betraying their nation. .

Answer 5

Nation before the politics is my belief of the patriotism.
Yes, the government is run by the humans!
Yes, they do have flaws!
Yes, they may be wrong at different occasions!
Yes, they may fail!

Amidst all this, all what we need to maintain is the spirit of the nationalism and the support for the country. We may be anti-government but make it a point to not to let it turn anti-national.

Answer 6

Standing up for your Country, even if your Govt isn't wrong.

Answer 7

Stupidity

Answer 8

Patriotism: Is always believing your country is right and knows what is best even when it is wrong. It is having a "blind" love for your country. It is stronger than nationalism.

Answer 9

Hitler would have loved your attitude.

Thomas Jefferson said, "Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism".

If you support your government when it is wrong, you are allowing your country to become worse than it is. If you challenge what your government is doing wrong, you are making your country better.

Answer 10

I agree with that, as well as the willingness to uphold and defend the Constitution by all means necessary, including sacrificing ones own life in order to preserve freedom for all...