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Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society. — Michael Ignatieff

True patriotism is doing something for your country. — Bill Maher

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. — Herman Melville

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism. — David Simon

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw

I think patriotism is like charity
it begins at home. — Henry James

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. — Richard Aldington

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. — Howard Zinn

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. — Tom Hooper

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. — Bill Kristol

While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. — C.S. Lewis

This Land Is Protected By Million's Blood Bath, If Needed, We'll Fight Again By Sipping The Death Bowl ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. — Paul Monroe

Our faith often grows stronger when we have to defend our beliefs, the same way that patriotism flowers and blooms when our country is threatened. — Lynn Austin

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who think they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries. — Andy Rooney

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. — Mick Jagger

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire

Avarice is patriotic! — William Donaldson

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. — Thomas Campbell

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 considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? — Wallace Shawn

Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone. — Florence Nightingale

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. — Elon Musk

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. — Robert E.Lee

Only when the state is in disorder is there a need for patriotism. — Lao-Tzu

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. — Lao-Tzu

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. — Seneca The Younger

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. — Robert Walpole

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. — Henry Louis Gates

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision. — Dominique De Villepin

He said: What is patriotism but love of the food one ate as a child? — Alexander McCall Smith

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. — Malcolm X

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants. — Dick Couch

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true. — Stefan Molyneux

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. — Aristotle.

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

The single best augury is to fight for one's country. — Homer

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. — Benjamin Rush

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

...There is no worse way to abuse a man's patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land... — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. — Malcolm X

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. — George Meredith

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people. — Cornelius Nepos

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. — Ron Paul

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. — Franklin Knight Lane

My love for my country is my religion. — Marie Of Romania

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. — Bob Riley

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone. — Orson Scott Card

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. — Woodrow Wilson

Patriotism is a menace to liberty. — Emma Goldman

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. — George Orwell

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition. — Gina Barreca

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. — Abraham Lincoln

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice
and always has been. — Mark Twain

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar — Marshall McLuhan

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

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness. — John C. Calhoun

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. — Robert McAfee Brown

Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty. — Bryant McGill

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents. — Jesse Ventura

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. — Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other. — David Ehrenfeld

A nation is the same people living in the same place. — James Joyce

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes — Bertolt Brecht

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. — Walter Scott

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. — William James

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism. — Jesse Ventura

Patriotism is an artificial, bordered "love" designed to create a distinct lack of love for those on the other side of the borders. — Adam Kokesh

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — Mark Twain

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it. — Jacob M. Appel

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons — Bertrand Russell

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism. — Howard Zinn

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism. — Joe Biden

Patriotism is racism for the modern era. — Michelle Templet

Internationalism is the highest form of patriotism. — Christopher Hitchens

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. — Oliver Tambo

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language. — Karl Kraus

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

No one is patriotic about taxes. — George Orwell

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

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. — Mike Fitzpatrick

Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America. — Marquis De Lafayette

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel. — Boies Penrose

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. — Charles De Gaulle

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly. — Will Thomas

Forcing someone into drug addiction is like stabbing a corpse everyday, the most detestable crime. — Sumit Agarwal

It's always the bastard who is most patriotic. — Anthony Marais

You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are. — Isaac Asimov

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. — Taylor Branch

Patriotism is dangerous, but kindness is always kind. — Debasish Mridha