137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
Robert Walpole

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

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


I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin

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

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

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
George Galloway

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

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke