"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Patriotism More From Ambrose Bierce "It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better." "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends." "Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage." More In Patriotism "Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it."― Denis Diderot "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 "To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."― George Santayana