Nation and Patriotism

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest .

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it .

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.