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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
Stevenson told the legionnaires that patriotism "is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. . . . For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Too much liberty Shatters the loyalty.
A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'
Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
It's always the bastard who is most patriotic.
It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.
I've always been in a rebel.Rebel-- Donnie Yen
I'm still an Irish republican; I absolutely believe in Irish unity and am working to achieve that. But over the course of 15 years or more, people like myself and others have been working to end the vicious cycle of conflict.
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Apparently while my squad and I were on our way here, skipping through the French countryside, picking daisies, having picnics, and laying farmer's daughters, the Army must have turned into a democracy.
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
Too much liberty kills the loyalty
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.
I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.
I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.
In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
Who Are You?
What do you want?
Where Are You Going?
Who do you serve and who do you trust?
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.
Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
The soldier is the army.
There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
I'm not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.
Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.
Majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.
Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Consider yourself an official member of the misfits and rebels circle.
A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
I'm a passionate monarchist.
Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.
Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.
I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
A rebel without a clue.
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
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Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
English dragoons
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army ...
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file
Let it be said: Loyalty to the New World Order is disloyalty to the
Republic
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
Well, I am actually a daughter of the American Revolution
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.
I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.
I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can
give an account of it, who know so much of history that
they can defend it.
I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have her (Britain) say that she defended us while we did nothing at home but pass resolutions.
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them.
However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.
Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
Our bodyguard is a born-again Christian with a father complex, a drinking problem, intellectual limitations and not enough backbone to do his military service with honor. In short, a guy we should be pleased is going to be reelected today.
As a former member of the IRA, I accept all the responsibilities that are due to me. But in terms of the individual circumstances, I don't comment on that.
I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.
My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.
The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.
May God even yet deliver us from the sin of loyalty!
England's Protestant," they declared. "Why else did we throw out the Stuarts? The government and their placemen are selling us down the river. If they'll give way over Catholics, what will they give way over next?
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
We are soldiers and have nothing to do with politics. I am obedient to whoever governs the country
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.
[Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.
I don't know if I'm partisan to the underdog or whether I'm the underdog.
...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.
The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.
Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.
Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen; an open and resolute friend; and a virtuous supporter of the RIGHTS of MANKIND, and of the FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA.
Let us who hail from Ireland stand to the last by the stars and stripes!
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 has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
Comes to my door. Mr. Mayor now. Got the suit, with the American flag in the lapel. Don't join the military; don't help out the little guy; don't take in your tired, your poor, your huddled masses - but if you wear a little flag, you're a patriot.
Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.
I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY. US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain
Republic. I like the sound of the word.
As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
In South Carolina, I had been an African. In Nova Scotia, I had become known as a Loyalist, or a Negro, or both. And now, finally back in Africa, I was seen as a Nova Scotian, and in some respects thought of myself that way too.