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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

"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?"

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