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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

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 ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families.

Robert Santos

Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show

George Peppard

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy

W. R. Inge

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

George Orwell

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

Wendy Kaminer

Patriotism ruins history.

Goethe

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Emma Goldman

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

David Starr Jordan

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Patriotism is the religion of hell

James Branch Cabell

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

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