"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Government Tags: country, patriotism, supporting More From Mark Twain "Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms." "A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape." "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." More In Government "I would hope that my writing’s cleaner than it was when I started."― Nora Roberts "It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear…’"― Rutherford B. Hayes "Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy."― Nick Nolte