“The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.”
Voltaire
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.”
Howard Thurman
“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
Emma Goldman
