Quotes / Patriotic Fervor

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Anime and Manga

"YOU UTTER FOOOOOOOOL! GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD!!!"

— Rudol von Stroheim, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency

Film — Live-Action

"America! Fuck Yeah!
Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah!
America! Fuck Yeah!
Freedom is the only way, yeah!"

— Team America: World Police, Theme Song

"I want... What they want. And every other guy, who came over here, and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That's what I want."

— John Rambo, Rambo: First Blood Part II

Captain Aubrey: You want to see a guillotine at Piccadilly!?
Crew: NO!
Captain Aubrey: You want to call that raggedy-ass Napoleon your king!?
Crew: NO!
Captain Aubrey: You want your children to sing La Marseillaise!?
Crew: NO!
Captain Aubrey: Mr. Mowett, Mr. Pullings, STARBOARD BATTERY!
Crew: [cheers]

— Master and Commander

"Today we will stain the battlefield with our blood. Behind us is our homeland. If we have to bleed out our last drop of blood, if we have to become bleached bones in this desert, we must defend it to the death! We must let the Rourans know we Wei warriors will never surrender and will never compromise! Soldiers may rebel against me, generals may leave me for dead, but I, Hua Mulan, will never betray my country!"

— Hua Mulan, Mulan: Rise of a Warrior

"To save France - it's why I was born."

— Joan of Arc, The Passion of Joan of Arc

"I choose to be here because I want my son to be born in a new, clean Spain."

— Captain Vidal, Pan's Labyrinth

W'Kabi: You would kill me, my love?
Okoye: For Wakanda? Without question.

— Black Panther (2018)

"It is not your country, boyars. You belong to this country. And me as well, I belong to this country. One says Ladislau of Hungary, not Hungary of Ladislau, Kazimir of Poland, not Poland of Kazimir. If it weren't this way, the countries would perish with their lords, and with their boyars."

— Vlad Tepes, Vlad Tepes

"Go tell all in foreign lands that Russia lives! Those who come to us in peace will be welcome as a guest. But those who come to us sword in hand will die by the sword! On that Russia stands and forever will we stand!"

— Alexander Nevsky, Alexander Nevsky

"We have a saying: It's better to die than to leave your homeland."

— Alexander Nevsky, Alexander Nevsky

Literature

"Vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, noughts and crosses, eagles and hammers. Mere arbitrary signs. But every reality to which a sign has been attached is thereby made subject to its sign. Goswami and Ali used to live in peace. But I got a flag, you got a flag, all Baboon-God's children got flags. So even Ali and Goswami got flags; and because of the flags it immediately became right and proper for the one with the foreskin to disembowel the one without a foreskin, and for the circumcised to shoot the uncircumcised, rape his wife and roast his children over slow fires... Our choice is between bread and bunting. And bunting, I need hardly add, is what we have almost unanimously chosen."

— Narrator, Ape And Essence

She unfolded another piece of paper. It was a pamphlet. It was headed "From the Mothers of Borogravia!" The mothers of Borogravia were very definite about wanting to send their sons off to war against the Zlobenian Aggressor and used a great many exclamation marks to say so. And this was odd, because the mothers in Munz had not seemed keen on the idea of their sons going off to war, and positively tried to drag them back. Several copies of the pamphlet seemed to have reached every home, even so. It was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

— Monstrous Regiment

"Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first."

— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate."

— Estraven, The Left Hand of Darkness

Music

"Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend?
All you have to do is follow the worms"

— Pink Floyd, "Waiting For The Worms"

"Then I feel you close.
Feel you close like you wanted me to.
Feel you close like you wanted me to
Believe in you.
Rise to the top of the world, America.
America, don't you cry."

— Imagine Dragons, "America"

"Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Hoo, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
Ohh, they point the cannon at you, Lord."

— 'Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Fortunate Son"

Theatre

"But if patriotic sentiment is wanted,
I've patriotic ballads cut and dried;
For where'er our country's banner may be planted,
All other local banners are defied!
Our warriors, in serried ranks assembled,
Never quail — or they conceal it if they do —
And I shouldn't be surprised if nations trembled
Before the mighty troops of Titipu!"

— Nanki-Poo, The Mikado

Video Games

"Nothing is pointless! And the reason is: Because I'm the President of the great United States of America! Yeeeeaaah!"

— President Michael Wilson, Metal Wolf Chaos

"Never forget the duty of an American. I pay taxes, work, and I always vote. I fight for freedom of this country. This fight is for Japan, for friendship."

— Roger Sasuke, Castle Shikigami 2

"You! You're a disgrace to your country! You took an oath of loyalty to your country!"

— Captain William Rush, Time Crisis 4

"You know what Japan was like back then. America treated us like slaves. Russia and China tried to steal our land. Our technology was robbed by other nations. I made a vow then. I swore I would make Japan strong again."

— Defense Minister Tamagami, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

Web Original

Gregg: The ultrahip Idina Menzel...
Drew: Oh, the disgust. Look at this HIP singer, that people LIKE. Repulsive. By next year, she’ll be busking outside Peter Pan terminals, I say!
Gregg: ...will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, while John Legend performs "America the Beautiful." [I will] save time by repeating in advance my annual complaint that only the first stanzas of the latter are sung at public events, not the deeper and more complex later lyrics.
Drew: And I will repeat my annual explanation that no one wants to hear a nine-minute version of the anthem before finally getting to watch a goddamn football game. "I bet Favre would have sung all 60 verses! I bet this ULTRAHIP chanteuse doesn't even know the extra verses exist!"

— Drew Magary, "Gregg Easterbrook is a haughty Dipshit"

Real Life

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

— Samuel Johnson

"American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that's showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds."

— Seth Rogan, 1.18.15 Tweet

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