"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Patriotism Tags: combustible, patriotism, ready, rubbish More From Ambrose Bierce "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance." "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." "Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white." More In Patriotism "I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life… nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive."― Leonard Baskin "To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."― George Santayana "The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"― Pablo Casals