George William Curtis

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

William R. Inge

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

John F. Kennedy

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

Blaise Pascal

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"

Albert Einstein

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

Diogenes

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."

Eugene V. Debs

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

James A. Baldwin

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

Nathan Hale

"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."

Voltaire

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."

Arthur C. Clarke

"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."

Richard Aldington

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

Albert Einstein

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

Guy de Maupassant

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."

Calvin Coolidge

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

George Jean Nathan

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

Bertrand Russell

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

George Bernard Shaw

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

Pablo Casals

"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."

Earl Warren

"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

William Shenstone

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."

William J. Clinton

"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."

George Santayana

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

George Bernard Shaw