Century Quote by W. S. Gilbert

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

— William Pierce

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is…

— Plato

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

— George Canning

That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and…

— Anonymous

“I know a wise Buddhist monk who, in a speech to his fellow countrymen, once said he'd love to know why someone who boasts…

— Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

— Emile M. Cioran

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

— Latin Proverb

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

— Seneca the Younger

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

— Bahá'u'lláh