Famous Quotes

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."

Leo Tolstoy on Patriotism

More quotes about Patriotism

• "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

  Ronald Reagan on Patriotism

• "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

  Albert Einstein on Patriotism

• "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

  John F. Kennedy on Patriotism

• "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."

  Mark Twain on Patriotism

• "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."

  John F. Kennedy on Patriotism

More quotes by Leo Tolstoy

• "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."

• "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

• "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

• "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

• "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."