Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic ' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor ' it's crucial to say that.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty to true culture has been a rebel a 'universal' without patriotism without home who has found his people everywhere.

I define nothing. Not beauty not patriotism. I take each thing as it is without prior rules about what it should be.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness patriotism and heroism by our troops our National Guard and Reserves.