Woodrow Wilson on patriotism

Peace is its own reward.

The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Ask not what your country can do for you⁠—ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)

‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober’.

G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “A Defence of Patriotism”

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900