While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

Don't burn the flag, wash it.

Soak the American flag in heroin and I'll suck it.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a long line of successive owners.

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

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

What is patriotism but a love of the food one ate as a child?

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