Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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