“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.” Midnight Library

His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. A Christmas Carol

“The lion cannot defend himself against snares and the fox cannot defend himself against wolves. Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.” The Prince

Patriotism is merely a religion--love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. As Regards Patriotism