My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.
The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
