• "Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person." - Charles Edward Montague Tweet
• "Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique." - Henry Louis Gates Tweet
• "Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it." - Denis Diderot Tweet
• "Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." - James Bryce Tweet
• "In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia." - John Sergeant Wise Tweet
• "The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres." - Bruno Bauer Tweet
• "The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" - Pablo Casals Tweet
• "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends." - Ambrose Bierce Tweet
• "Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted." - Michael Ignatieff Tweet
• "The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one." - William Shenstone Tweet