Patriotism Quotes

• Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

  Richard Aldington

• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

• Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

  Dale Carnegie

• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

• 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.

  Arthur C. Clarke

• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  William J. Clinton

• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  Calvin Coolidge

• 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.

  George William Curtis

• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

• I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

  Eugene V. Debs

• I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  Diogenes

• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

  Albert Einstein

• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

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

  Nathan Hale

• A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

  William Ralph Inge

• And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

• I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

  Bob Riley

• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  Bertrand Russell

• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

  George Santayana

• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  George Bernard Shaw

• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

  William Shenstone

• Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

• 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

• Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

• It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

  Voltaire

• The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

  Earl Warren

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  Oscar Wilde

• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

  Guy de Maupassant

• Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

  George Jean Nathan

• 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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