love for one's nation Quotes

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.