Patriotism Sayings & Quotes
These patriotism sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.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
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson
This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism, how intensely I despise them! - Albert Einstein
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism, and wars. - Dale Carnegie
Patriotism having become one of our topics, 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
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. - Bob Dylan
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