| Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. |
| Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. |
| He loves his country best who strives to make it best. |
| My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. |
| The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. |
| Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. |
| It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. |
| To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. |
| It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. |
| 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. |