It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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.
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises… the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
My country, always wrong.
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare –never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.
Our country right or wrong.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.
Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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