Patriotism Quotes
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Patriotism is a menace to liberty.
Emma Goldman
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone and as irrational as a headless hen.
Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain
George McGovern
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess their very lives.
Csar Estrada Chvez
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
