142 private quotes tagged patriotism

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.” — Howard Zinn

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“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” — George Washington

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“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.” — Voltaire

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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?” — Blaise Pascal

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“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!” — Albert Einstein

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“Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” — Oscar Wilde

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“We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.” — Dave Barry

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“The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Lyn Nofziger

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“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.” — George Orwell

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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” — Howard Zinn

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“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain

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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” — Bertrand Russell

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“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” — Ronald Reagan

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“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.” — Mark Twain

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“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” — Albert Einstein

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“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” — Samuel Johnson

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“One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.” — Aldous Huxley

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