- Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
- Mark Twain on Patriotism
- Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
- James Bryce on Patriotism
- Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
- Charles Edward Montague on Patriotism
- Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
- Greil Marcus on Patriotism
- Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
- Guy De Maupassant on Patriotism
- Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- Denis Diderot on Patriotism
- Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
- Bill Kristol on Patriotism
- Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
- Mick Jagger on Patriotism
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
- Henry Louis Gates on Patriotism
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
- Henry Louis Gates on Patriotism
- Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
- Wallace Shawn on Patriotism
- Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- Calvin Coolidge on Patriotism
- Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai Stevenson on Patriotism
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan on Patriotism
- Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
- Michael Ignatieff on Patriotism
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the religion of hell.
- James Branch Cabell on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell on Patriotism
- Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
- George Orwell on Patriotism
- 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 on Patriotism
- Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
- Charles De Gaulle on Patriotism
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw on Patriotism
- Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
- Henry Bolingbroke on Patriotism
- Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
- Frank Knox on Patriotism
- Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Patriotism
- Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
- Ambrose Bierce on Patriotism
- Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
- Ricardo Montalban on Patriotism
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