Patriotism

Devotion to one’s native land—a sentiment best conveyed in Horace’s famous words: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (“it is sweet and becoming to die for the fatherland”). While pride in one’s homeland is an ancient and powerful emotion, it has taken many forms. The Crusades, for instance, arose from loyalty to Christianity, not from any nationalistic concept of patriotism. In fact, fully developed modern patriotism—that associated with the “parent” nation-state and its children-citizens—did not develop until the time of the French Revolution...

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