“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
Pablo Casals
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest”
Samuel Johnson
“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.”
Voltaire
“I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.”
“Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.”
Patricia Sun
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