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

Abbey, Edward on patriotism
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"What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country."

Addison, Joseph on patriotism    Share

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

Adler, Alfred on patriotism    Share

"Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

Adler, Felix on patriotism    Share

"Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam."

Agnew, Spiro T. on patriotism    Share

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

Barrington, George on patriotism    Share

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

Bierce, Ambrose on patriotism    Share

"Patriotism must be founded on great principles and supported by great virtue."

Bolingbroke, Henry on patriotism    Share

"Who saves his country violates no law."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on patriotism    Share

"Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime."

Borrow, George on patriotism    Share

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."

Bunuel, Luis on patriotism    Share

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Burke, Edmund on patriotism
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"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."

Byron, Lord on patriotism
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"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."

Cavell, Edith on patriotism    Share

"My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on patriotism
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"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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on patriotism    Share

"Many a bum show has been saved by the flag."

Cohan, George M. on patriotism    Share

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

Coolidge, Calvin on patriotism    Share

"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 on patriotism    Share

"The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible."

Custine, Marquis De on patriotism    Share

"Our country right or wrong."

Decatur, Stephen on patriotism    Share

"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."

Decatur, Stephen on patriotism    Share

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"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it."

Diderot, Denis on patriotism    Share

"Never was patriot yet, but was a fool."

Dryden, John on patriotism    Share

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"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

Durrell, Lawrence on patriotism    Share

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

Ehrenreich, Barbara on patriotism    Share

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

Field, D. D. on patriotism    Share

"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute."

Fulbright, J. William on patriotism    Share

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Hale, Nathan on patriotism    Share

"I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on patriotism    Share

"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans."

Hobsbawm, E. J. on patriotism    Share

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."

Homer on patriotism    Share

"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."

Horace on patriotism    Share

"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."

James, Henry on patriotism
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"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

Johnson, Samuel on patriotism    Share

"... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Kennedy, John F. on patriotism    Share

"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."

Lao-Tzu on patriotism    Share

"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."

Lewis, Sinclair on patriotism    Share

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