The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Leo Tolstoy. . . defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.