Nation and Patriotism

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land.

To scatter plenty o’er a smiling land, And read their hist’ry in a nation’s eyes.

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.

“While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the world.” 5

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag,” she said.

The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;

I shall have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Ich bin ein Berliner.

You will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He

If I were to be president, sometimes I would have to say to the Israeli people things they would not like to hear.

A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner. Such combatants are patriots in the same sense as two dogs fighting for a bone are lovers of animals.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.