The Gospel of the Monarchical Patriotism is: “The King can do no wrong.” We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: “Our Country, right or wrong!”
Patriotism Quotes
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
We have thrown away the most valuable asset we have – the individual right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he by himself) believes them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it all away: and with it, all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear to our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catch phrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is […]
Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passeth by: Carrying out their orders, here we lie. (in Honor of the Spartan Defenders of Thermopylae)
There are two kinds of patriotism – monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case, the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism: in the other, neither government nor the entire nation is privileged to dictate to any individual what the form of his patriotism shall be. The Gospel […]
If noble death be virtue’s chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom’s crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Relieved at having received his immigration papers and “searching about for a vehicle through which I might best express my gratitude, ” (Igor) Stravinsky composed a new orchestration for the “Star-Spangled Banner” and dedicated it “to the American People.” He knew Congress had made it a civil offence (maximum fine $100) to embellish or otherwise […]
