Quotes
Quotes about Patriotism
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
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.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October 12, 1915.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
