What is True Patriotism? Famous quotes on this subject for the 4th of July

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land as much as anywhere else." -- Clarence Darrow

"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- if fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous." -- Aldous Huxley

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

"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office holders."
-- Mark Twain

"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?"
-- Adlai Stevenson

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