We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the
largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter —
exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We
teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as
do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a
thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place — the
delivery of our political conscience into somebody else’s keeping. This is
patriotism on the Russian plan.
— Mark Twain