'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country--I'm a Roman for that.

The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

One Bright Shining Moment

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a hopeful view of the prospects of your own country? Why should it be? Why should patriotism and pessimism be identical? Hope is the mainspring of patriotism.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.