Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen..

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced..

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!.

My country, right or wrong, but still my country..

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming….

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem..

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patrio….

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority..

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction..

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the ….

"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymor….

If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, gr….

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 l….

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world..

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, coura….

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted..

No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial..

You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense ….

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great natio….

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one..