The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Patriotism Quotes
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name.
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone. The last words of British nurse, shot as a spy by the German authorities in Brussels on October 12, 1915.
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts to sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly, burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Patriotism: In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as “The last refuge of a scoundrel”. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.’
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.
