Heroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

That we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

He who loves not his country can love nothing

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is without prior rules about what it should be.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Have 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.

The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.