You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.