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Love of country is like love of woman – he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

When I see the American flag, I go, ‘Oh my God, you’re insulting me.’