Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

—Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

—Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

—Bertrand Russell

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

—Bertrand Russell

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

—Bertrand Russell

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

—Unknown

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

—Woodrow Wilson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

—Thomas Jefferson