True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism" I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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.

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

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

My country, always wrong.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?