My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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.
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.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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