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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 4.0000 average rating  
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." Clarence Seward Darrow 4.5833 average rating  
"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 4.7222 average rating  
"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 4.6520 average rating  
"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 4.8462 average rating  
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!" Albert Einstein 4.6000 average rating  
"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 4.5000 average rating  
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Dr. Samuel Johnson 4.6176 average rating  
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." Albert Einstein 4.7639 average rating  
"Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde 4.8571 average rating  
"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 4.8472 average rating  
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders." Mark Twain 4.7143 average rating  
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." Bertrand Russell 4.2857 average rating  
"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 4.8000 average rating  
"What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?" Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating  
"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 4.6000 average rating  
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography." George Santayana 5.0000 average rating  
"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 5.0000 average rating  
"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 4.4000 average rating  
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." Malcolm X 4.6364 average rating  
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