I love my country, not my government.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

— Anonymous

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart,…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

“Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border?”

— Pablo Casals

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany…

— Gene Weingarten

“Patriotism is primitiveness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and…

— Mark Twain

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country…

— Anonymous

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to…

— William Sloane Coffin

I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have.…

— Hasan Minhaj

“Patriotism is the antithesis of world peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud…

— Sydney J. Harris

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

— Aberjhani

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond…

— Colin Powell

“If the government in a country treats 60 percent of the population well and 40 percent badly, that means there is a dictatorship in…

— Mehmet Murat ildan