Personal patriotism is emotional and voluntary. The patriot adheres to certain patriotic values, such as respect for the flag. Often official patriotism is highly regulated by protocol, with specific methods for handling flags, or specific pledges and displays of allegiance.

Patriotism relies heavily on symbolic acts, such as displaying the flag, singing the national anthem, participating in a mass rally, placing a patriotic bumper sticker on one's vehicle, or any other way of publicly proclaiming allegiance to the state.

Symbolic patriotism in wartime is intended to raise morale, in turn contributing to the war effort.

Promotional patriotic umbrellas are widely utilized to express patriotism. They have the basic characteristic of the American flag, red, white and blue colors along with the stars and strips and are available in a variety of sizes and styles.

FAMOUS QUOTATIONS:

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Abraham Lincoln

America is a tune. It must be sung together. Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." Marilyn vos Savant,

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. George William Curtis

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. Adlai Stevenson