“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism”
George Washington
“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
“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.”
Howard Thurman
“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.”
Ambrose Bierce
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Abraham Lincoln
