“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
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patriotism
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“Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.”
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“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
“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?”
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!”
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
“Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.”
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
“We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.”
“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.”
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
“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.”
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
“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.”
“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
“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.”
“The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
“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.”