Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.

Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.

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

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

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we read more

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Iraq is an unjust war.
(spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice..
stated in articles written for NY Times.. printed
read more

Iraq is an unjust war.
(spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice..
stated in articles written for NY Times.. printed
in USA Today).

Thank God, I--I also--am an American!

Thank God, I--I also--am an American!

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all read more

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over
this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of
our nature.

They know no country, own no lord,
Their home the camp, their law the sword.

They know no country, own no lord,
Their home the camp, their law the sword.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how read more

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I
hate them!