I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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.
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.