All true patriots will meet in heaven. [ Charlotte Corday ]

I am not a Virginian, but an American. [ Patrick Henry ]

The noblest motive is the public good. [ Virgil ]

Our country is the common parent of all. [ Cicero ]

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. [ Johnson ]

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. [ Southey ]