 | "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
- Bertrand Russell
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| " '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
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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
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| "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
- George Bernard Shaw
, "Misalliance". |
| "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
- George Jean Nathan
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| "Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
- George S. Patton
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| "It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country."
- Homer
, The Iliad. |
| "The single best augury is to fight for one's country."
- Homer
, The Iliad. |
| "And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
- John F. Kennedy
, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961. |
| "How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue !
Who would not be that youth ? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country !"
- Joseph Addison
, "Cato", Act 4, Scene 4, 1713. |