There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only hundred per cent Americanism.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

All around, vastly and untidily, stretched the country for which he grieved. He was to give his life for it. But would that great country ... take the slightest heed of his death? He did not know; and it did not matter. His was a battlefield without glory, a battlefield where none could display the deeds of valor; it was the front line of the spirit.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.

What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!

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.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

He who loves not his home and country which he has seen, how shall he love humanity in general which he has not seen?