Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Patriotism Quotes
The patriotism we celebrate on the Fourth of July is more than an expression of love for our country and pride in its achievements. An appreciation of the origins of the blessings we enjoy is essential for preserving those blessings for ourselves and our children and grandchildren… Patriotism is more than a sentiment. It is […]
Patriotism has become a mere national self-assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from the narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other […]
Patriotism is a rude feeling because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict. It is a harmful feeling because it disturbs advantageous and joyous peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental […]
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
