[Patriotism]...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did — and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations (ed. Courier Corporation, 2009) - ISBN: 9780486473192