The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
Horace

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.
Giuseppe Mazzini

Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
J. Horace McFarland

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
Walter Scott

Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
Adlai Stevenson

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.
Sallust

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

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
Edith Wharton

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

[P]atriotism… is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
Dale Carnegie

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,
Our love where we spent our toil,
And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
We pledge to our native soil.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
Rudyard Kipling

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
Mark Twain

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
Henry James

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert G. Ingersoll

A man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana

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

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Seneca

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
S.I. Hayakawa

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

I love America. I love the world. Brotherhood and sisterhood have no borders. My heart orbits the Earth, love cannot be measured in longitude or latitude.
Valentine Sterling

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.
Thucydides

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William R. Inge

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
Rosika Schwimmer

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility … a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
Buddha

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke