| Topic |
Quote |
Author |
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| Patriotism | "Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill." | Aldington, Richard |
| Patriotism | "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." | Baldwin, James A. |
| Patriotism | "The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" | Casals, Pablo |
| Patriotism | "I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." | Cavell, Edith |
| Patriotism | "It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars." | Clarke, Arthur C. |
| Patriotism | "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America." | Clinton, William J. |
| Patriotism | "Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." | Coolidge, Calvin |
| Patriotism | "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." | Curtis, George William |
| Patriotism | "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." | Debs, Eugene V. |
| Patriotism | "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!" | Einstein, Albert |
| Patriotism | "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." | Einstein, Albert |
| Patriotism | "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." | Hale, Nathan |
| Patriotism | "A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours." | Inge, William R. |
| Patriotism | "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." | Kennedy, John F. |
| Patriotism | "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." | Lincoln, Abraham |
| Patriotism | "Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." | Maupassant, Guy de |
| Patriotism | "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles." | Nathan, George Jean |
| Patriotism | "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?" | Pascal, Blaise |
| Patriotism | "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." | Russell, Bertrand |
| Patriotism | "To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography." | Santayana, George |
| Patriotism | "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." | Shaw, George Bernard |
| Patriotism | "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race." | Shaw, George Bernard |
| Patriotism | "The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one." | Shenstone, William |
| Patriotism | "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." | Socrates, |
| Patriotism | "Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." | Stevenson, Adlai E. |
| Patriotism | "Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may." | Twain, Mark |
| Patriotism | "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind." | Voltaire, |
| Patriotism | "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism." | Warren, Earl |
