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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

My definition of patriotism is that it is unconscionable for you to disrespect the flag.

You can be a patriot and challenge the government without disrespecting the flag.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

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.

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

It is not the reporter’s job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything … that smacks of discrimination or slander.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy… But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.