The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.