Demand Quote by Robert Walpole

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

— Ron Paul

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

— Douglas Tompkins

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

— George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

— Bertrand Russell

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.”

— Gina Barreca

Granted, patriotism is not a tonic that can be forced down people's throats.

— Naseeruddin Shah

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.

— Paul Monroe

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

— George Washington

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why,…

— Robert Walpole

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which…

— Robert E. Lee

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

— David Ehrenfeld