True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.