Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

“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. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

Don’t be a fool and die for your country. Let the other son of a dog die for his.

George S. Patton (1885 – 1945), (attributed)

The single best augury is to fight for one’s country.

Homer (800 BC – 700 BC), The Iliad

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

John Adams (1735 – 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18

April 1808

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), Inaugural address,

January 20, 1961

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 Addison (1672 – 1719), “Cato”, Act 4, Scene 4, 1713

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale (1755 – 1776), last words, 22 September 1776 (attributed)

In God we trust.

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will also give some good ones