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Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.
D. D. Field in PATRIOTIC
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and
Erich Fromm in PATRIOTIC
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. William Fulbright in PATRIOTIC
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of th
Nathaniel Hawthorne in PATRIOTIC
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patri
Ernest Hemingway in PATRIOTIC
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Henry James in PATRIOTIC
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson in PATRIOTIC
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao-Tzu in PATRIOTIC
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X in PATRIOTIC
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with ot
Giuseppe Mazzini in PATRIOTIC
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken in PATRIOTIC
Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan in PATRIOTIC
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Thomas Paine in PATRIOTIC
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
Theodore Roosevelt in PATRIOTIC
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
Sir Walter Scott in PATRIOTIC
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
George Bernard Shaw in PATRIOTIC
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw in PATRIOTIC
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw in PATRIOTIC
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetim
Adlai E. Stevenson in PATRIOTIC
My country, always wrong.
Student Slogan in PATRIOTIC
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
Henry David Thoreau in PATRIOTIC
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided
George Washington in PATRIOTIC
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
H.G. Wells in PATRIOTIC
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
Edith Wharton in PATRIOTIC
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
Spiro T. Agnew in PATRIOTIC
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
George Barrington in PATRIOTIC
Who saves his country violates no law.
Napoleon Bonaparte in PATRIOTIC
''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
Gilbert K. Chesterton in PATRIOTIC
My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
Gilbert K. Chesterton in PATRIOTIC
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
George M. Cohan in PATRIOTIC
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