The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard and you loved something you could become successful.
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.
Such is the audacity of man that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature yea and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
I think the destructive vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.