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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
Robert Charles Winthrop
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
Ernest Hemingway
Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.
Stephen Richards
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
Nick Lampson
Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
Henry Louis Gates
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell
We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power
Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the A
Patriotism ruins history.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen
Ambrose Bierce
The Noble Lord advocates Union, what doth such a union mean? When the Smaller unites with the greater, what happens? The greater absorbs and engulfs the lesser, it is ever thus and so will be! There are ten times as many English as Scots. Think you then, when the ten becomes eleven, the eleventh will partner the ten? Or, be swallowed up by the ten? Is this what my Lord of Stair wants? An end to Scotland? The most ancient nation in Christendom, a kingdom when England was but a medley of warring tribes! Scotland, from whence Christianity spread to the English. Scotland, a people with their own Kirk and laws, their freedoms, customs and pride. Is all that for which our forefathers fought for untold generations, to be merely thrown aside for a mess of trading privileges and navigation rights? I would rather that Scotland sank to the bottom of the ocean rather than we lost one least part of our cherished Independence and ages old identity!
Andrew Fletcher, From the minute
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
African Proverb
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Frank Knox
