patriotic duty
Citizen's sacred charge
Patriotic duty is an obligation felt toward one's country—actions citizens believe they owe their nation.
Military service, voting, and paying taxes are commonly framed as patriotic duties.
The phrase often appears in appeals to national loyalty: He enlisted out of patriotic duty.
Critics note the term can pressure compliance with policies that merit scrutiny.
- border patrolBoundary enforcement agency
- victory gardensCivilian wartime food plots
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- military serviceDuty in armed forces
- citizen soldierCivilian who serves militarily
loyalty · love of country · pledge of allegiance · American flag · voting · honor · war bonds · civil defense · home front · integrity · courage · peacekeeping missions · conscription · draft card · call to arms · support the troops · serve your country · national holidays
- duty
- military enlistmentenlistment, recruit, enlisted, induction, recruits
- war economicswar funding, war effort, mobilization, defense contracts, munitions
- war propagandawar posters, propaganda films, Soviet propaganda, demonization, I Want You
patriotic dutytreason
Betraying one's nation
sedition · disloyalty · self-interest · defection · cosmopolitanism
patriotic dutyself-indulgence
Excessive yielding to desires
self-determination · voluntary action · personal freedom · draft dodging · conscientious objection
patriotic dutydraft dodging
Avoiding mandatory military service
desertion · conscientious objection · civil disobedience · flag burning · anti-nationalism