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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

Jesse Ventura

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells)

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robert C. Winthrop

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Alfred Adler

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

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

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

'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.'

G. K. Chesterton

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.

John Dalberg Acton

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Ambrose Bierce

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

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!

Albert Einstein

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

John Caldwell Calhoun

Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

George Canning

True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.

George Barrington

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Gary Hart

The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism).

Thomas Sowell

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October 12, 1915.

Edith Cavell

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Wilfred Sheed

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.

D. D. Field

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