(419 quotes found)
“If patriotism is "the last refuge of a scoundrel," it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether”
Ralph B. Perry
“Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.”
Steve Allen
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.”
Bertrand Russell
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”
Andrew Jackson
“A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot”
William Randolph
“The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.”
Thomas Hardy
“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
“"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington”
George Washington
“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
