Patriotism Quotes

  • It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
    ~ Voltaire
  • Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
    ~ Charles de Gaulle
  • If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
    ~ Hamilton Fish
  • Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.
    ~ Oscar Wilde
  • Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
    ~ Richard Aldington
  • The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
    ~ Earl Warren
  • The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
    ~ George Meredith
  • I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
    ~ Socrates
  • 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
  • What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
    ~ Lin Yutang
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