Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial rea­sons.
- Bertrand Russell

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bemard Shaw

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

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
-Homer

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. -MalcolmX

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. - Alan Dean Foster

The basis of a democratic state is liberty. -Aristotle

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbours.  There is no other.
- Carl Schurz

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. –
George Bemard Shaw

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
-Lenin

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
-LordActon

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
-MalcolmX

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-MalcolmX

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, free­dom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
-MarkTWain

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- Patricia Sampson

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the. Love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
- Diane Frolov andAndrew Schneider

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. -JohnAdams

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!