137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
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
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
Robert Walpole
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
