Patriotism quotes

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

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.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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