Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

'Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,' said Dr. Samuel Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the pri…

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by 'patriotism' I mea…