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

    Funny   Wisdom   Country  
  • You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

  • I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

  • Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

    Country   Patriotic   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press
  • I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

    Patriotism   Want   Blind  
  • There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

  • At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

    Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1970). “Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926”
  • It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

  • A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

    Adrienne Rich (2012). “Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012: 1971–2012”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company
  • No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

  • The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.

    Spiritual   War   America  
    "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam". Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, www.informationclearinghouse.info. April 30, 1967.
  • There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

    "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.
  • Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

    Love   Country   Hate  
    "Liberalism and terrorism: Different stages of same disease?" by Ann Coulter, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 4, 2002.
  • In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

    Dog   Peace   War  
    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

    The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)
  • My love for my country is my religion.

  • Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

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

  • Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

  • We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation
  • Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.

    Country   Home   Men  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “American ideals and other essays, social and political”
  • It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.433, Ballantine Books
  • A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.423
  • The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

    George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.5
  • What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

    Cato act 4, sc. 4 (1713) See Nathan Hale 1
  • The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don't know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I've got to call your bluff on that.

  • Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

    Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”
  • The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.

    Country   Land   People  
  • Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

    Peace   War   Mean  
  • Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

    Passion   Self   Blood  
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