• It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 53 votes · 181 reads

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• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 174 reads

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• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 6 reads

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• My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 77 reads

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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 154 reads

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• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 131 reads

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• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 56 reads

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.1 · 47 votes · 34 reads

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

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 178 reads

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 61 votes · 157 reads

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• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 107 reads

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• Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 63 reads

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• The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 130 reads

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• Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 5 reads

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 124 reads

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• What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 9 reads

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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 59 reads

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• Who saves his country violates no law.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 169 reads

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• Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 11 reads

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• You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 91 reads

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