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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (7 April 1775) p. 253
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Has Man a Future? (1962), p. 78
- War & Peace
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Attributed to de Gaulle by Romain Gary, Life, May 9, 1969
How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene iv
- Life & Death
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!
Daniel Webster1782–1852Speech (July 17, 1850); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), p. 437
- America
Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell1903–1950Notes on Nationalism (1945)
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates470–399 BCPlutarch
We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Conservative Party television broadcast “Winter of Discontent” (17 January 1979)
- Politics
There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah1876–1948Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore 30 October 1947.
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
William Wordsworth1770–1850It Is Not to Be Thought Of, l. 11 (1807)
- Freedom
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 187
A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, Book XV, 496–497 (tr. Lord Derby)
- Life & Death
Bird-signs!
Fight for your country⁠—that is the best, the only omen!
Homer900–800 BCIliad, Book XII, 243 (tr. Robert Fagles)
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)