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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
Robert Walpole
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur
Our country right or wrong.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Cory Booker
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Edith Cavell
Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.
William Osler, Chauvinism in Med
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
Theodore Roosevelt
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele Commager
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Michael Ignatieff
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
Sir Walter Scott
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
LaoTzu
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph Addison
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
