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Patriotism Quotes

G. K. Chesterton Quote

My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober. -- G. K. Chesterton

Albert Einstein Quote

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot. -- Albert Einstein

Abraham Lincoln Quote

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. -- Abraham Lincoln

Samuel Johnson Quote

Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest. -- Samuel Johnson

George Bernard Shaw Quote

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw

George Gordon Byron Quote

For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn -- George Gordon Byron

Barry Schwartz Quote

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money. -- Barry Schwartz

Charles De Gaulle Quote

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. -- Charles De Gaulle

H.L. Mencken Quote

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. -- H.L. Mencken

George Bernard Shaw Quote

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. -- George Bernard Shaw

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