Patriotism Quotes & Sayings
These patriotism quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, 'patriotism' is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. - Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. - Oscar Wilde
Law and Order is like patriotism, anyone who comes on strong about patriotism has got something to hide; it never fails. They always turn out to be a crook or an ass-hole or something. - Bill Mauldin
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
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. - George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. - Bertrand Russell