Heroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert EinsteinIt is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
VoltairePatriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard ShawPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand RussellThat we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Charlie SheenPatriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar WildePatriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George OrwellPatriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel JohnsonPatriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark TwainI think Americans are very patriotic.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerGuard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George WashingtonPatriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainPatriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean NathanI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanWe'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave BarryHave a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.
Sai BabaThe greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo TolstoyWhatever country you belong to, you should have a sense of patriotism.
Sai BabaYou'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard ShawEach nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale CarnegiePatriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin CoolidgeEvery diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew JacksonAs I've said there were patriots who supported this war and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
Barack ObamaOne 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 HuxleyWhen a nation is filled with strife then do patriots flourish.
Lao TzuNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William CowperWhat this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose BierceThere are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes all of us defending the United States of America.
Barack ObamaI kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul IIWe the People recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights, that our destinies are bound together, that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me a freedom without a commitment to others a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense.
Barack ObamaPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand RussellWar is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart MillPatriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Ambrose BierceThe same ambition can destroy or save and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander PopeIf we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
James MadisonThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas JeffersonBack in 2008 candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president one term $5 trillion in new debt.
Paul Ryan