Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

I am, we are, patriots so outrageously old-fashioned that we incorporated the spirit of the country in our very heads, took literally its every invitation to the greatest kind of self-fulfillment ever known.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

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.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.