Patriotism

• It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. — Horace
• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy
• Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson
• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. — Guy de Maupassant
• No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own. — Seneca
• Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
  But spare your country's flag. — Barbara Frietchie [John Greenleaf Whittier]