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"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"	George Gordon Byron
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."	General Charles De Gaulle
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."	Albert Einstein
"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
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!"	Albert Einstein
"Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."	Albert Einstein
"Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious."	Oscar Wilde
"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
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders."	Mark Twain
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."	Bertrand Russell
"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"	Blaise Pascal
"What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?"	Kahlil Gibran
"Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?"	Adlai Stevenson
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."	George Santayana
"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."	George Washington
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