I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

"You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are."

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

What is patriotism? Let us begin with what patriotism is not. It is not patriotic to dodge the draft and to mock war heroes and their families. It is not patriotic to discriminate against active-duty members of the armed forces in one’s companies, or to campaign to keep disabled veterans away from one’s property. It is not patriotic to compare one’s search for sexual partners in New York with the military service in Vietnam that one has dodged. It is not patriotic to avoid paying taxes, especially when American working families do pay. It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one’s own presidential campaign, and then to spend their contributions in one’s own companies. It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi; or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. It is not patriotic to call upon Russia to intervene in an American presidential election. It is not patriotic to cite Russian propaganda at rallies. It is not patriotic to share an adviser with Russian oligarchs. It is not patriotic to solicit foreign policy advice from someone who owns shares in a Russian energy company. It is not patriotic to read a foreign policy speech written by someone on the payroll of a Russian energy company. It is not patriotic to appoint a national security adviser who has taken money from a Russian propaganda organ. It is not patriotic to appoint as secretary of state an oilman with Russian financial interests who is the director of a Russian-American energy company and has received the “Order of Friendship” from Putin. The point is not that Russia and America must be enemies. The point is that patriotism involves serving your own country.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.