In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.

Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to…

— Joseph Warren

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or…

— Han Suyin

With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved…

— William J. Clinton

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment…

— William Wallace

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

— C. S. Lewis

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.

— Steven T. Byington

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

— Albert Einstein

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly…

— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

“The disturbances in the country grew not out of anything republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of the system of hereditary…

— George Bancroft

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up…

— Amartya Sen

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

“[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that…

— James A. Michener

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply…

— Sharon Maas