Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.
Max Heindel
1. "Great artists have no country."
Alfred de Musset
Other categories: Art and Culture
2. "The Family is the Country of the heart."
Giuseppe Mazzini
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
3. "Where liberty dwells there is my country."
Latin proverb
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
4. "God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother."
Giuseppe Mazzini
Other categories: Human
5. "Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Flight to Arras"
6. "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
George Orwell, "Collected Essays"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
7. "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, "Journals"
Other categories: Good and Evil
8. "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
Gore Vidal
Other categories: History and Nations
9. "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
George Jean Nathan
10. "Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."
Scottish proverb
Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Freedom and Servitude
11. "No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."
William Cowper
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
12. "True patriots don't wave flags."
Michael D. Perry
13. "The difference between a rebel and a patriot is wether who is in power."
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14. "A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."
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15. "Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill. "
Richard Aldington, "Colonel's Daughter"
16. "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
17. ""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.""
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Defendant"
18. "East or West, Home is best."
English proverb
19. "Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
20. "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
Winston Churchill
Other categories: Authority, Government
21. "Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
Guy de Maupassant
22. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
Mark Twain
Other categories: Authority, Government
23. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
24. "Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country."
Bertrand Russell
25. "Our true nationality is mankind."
Herbert George Wells
Other categories: Human
26. "Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw
27. "We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing."
John Paul II
28. "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
Clarence Darrow
29. "Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed."
Rabindranath Tagore
Other categories: History and Nations
30. "The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."
Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
Other categories: Destiny and Fate
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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