To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.
Patriotism Quotes
The Athenian democracy suffered much from the narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other […]
Patriotism is a rude feeling because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict. It is a harmful feeling because it disturbs advantageous and joyous peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental […]
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only hundred percent Americanism.
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle term, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not be evoked… as we now do, but which must be eradicated by […]
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to […]
If patriotism had been taught in the schools years ago the country would not be in the position it is in today. Mr. Skinner is better satisfied with the present conditions than I am. I would teach patriotism in the schools, and teach it this way: I would throw out the old maxim, “My country, […]
