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.
Leo Tolstoy
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
George McGovern
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Clara Barton
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Lyn Nofziger
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
Robert Walpole
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barry
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
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