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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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?
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.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.