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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.