Quotes · Skopia

33 quotes

1915

★ 1.0

TV program

I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend.

Dan Rather

2002

★ 1.0

Political literature

The love of our country, as the term has usually been understood, has too often been found to be one of those specious illusions which are employed by impostors for the purpose of rendering the multitude the blind instruments of their crooked designs.

William Godwin

1793

★ 1.8

Poem

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home.

Oliver Goldsmith

1764

★ 1.9

Poem

Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

1973

★ 1.9

Essay · Political literature

Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

1990

★ 1.9

Play

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Carlo Goldoni

1750

★ 1.9

Poem

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

Charles Churchill

The Farewell · 1764

★ 1.9

Play · Tragic play

The more foreigners I saw, the more I loved my homeland.

Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy

1765

★ 1.9

Poem

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-My country!

William Cowper

1785

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians.

Robert Graves

Goodbye to All That · 1929

★ 1.9

Film · Film noir · Spy (film) · Spy

Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism."

Alicia Huberman

Notorious · 1946

★ 2.2

Novel

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

Richard Aldington

The Colonel's Daughter · 1931

★ 3.5

Poem

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning

1821

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Carl Schurz

1872

★ 3.5

Essay · Magazine

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E.M. Forster

1938

★ 3.5

Letter

Patriotism in the female Sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honours and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Goverment from having held a place of Eminence...Yet all History and every age exhibit Instances of patriotick virtue in the female Sex; which considering our situation equals the most Heroick of yours.

Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams, June 17, 1782 · 1782

★ 3.6

Magazine

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

1905

★ 3.6

Newspaper

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

Anatole France

1922

★ 3.6

Letter

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus

1944

★ 3.7

Film · Political (film) · Thriller (film) · Political · Thriller

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.

Jim Garrison

JFK · 1991

★ 3.7

Film · Crime (film) · Epic (film) · Crime · Epic

Your country ain't your blood, you remember that.

Sonny Corleone

The Godfather: Part II · 1974

★ 3.8

Poem

Lovely and honorable it is to die for one's country.

Horace

Odes · 23 BC

★ 3.9

Novel

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1889

★ 3.9

Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

1931

★ 4.3

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

1816

★ 5.2

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.3

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

1893

★ 5.3

Play

What pity is it, That we can die but once, to serve our country!

Joseph Addison

1713

★ 6.9

Poem

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est · 1918

★ 6.9

TV news · TV program

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Edward R. Murrow

1954

★ 6.9

Speech · Political speech

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

Frederick Douglass

1847

★ 7.0

Biography

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1778

★ 7.1

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