Who saves his country violates no law.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.