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 | "A man"s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers,
and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that
principle." | |
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George William Curtis
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| "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government." | |
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Edward Paul Abbey
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| "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath
said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne?er within him
burn?d, As home his footsteps he hath turn?d From wandering on a foreign
strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel
raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his
wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The
wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,
doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor?d, and unsung." | |
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Sir Walter Scott
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| "Heroism on command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country
stance, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism
? how passionately I hate them!" | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the
present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on
this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some
reward." | |
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George Washington
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| "It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country." | |
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Alfred Adler
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| "Love of country is like love of woman ? he loves her best who seeks
to bestow on her the highest good." | |
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Felix Adler
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| "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying
for his country. He won it by making the other poor bastard die for his
country." | |
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General George Smith Patton, Jr.
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| "On the gallows: I only regret that I have but one life to lose for
my country." | |
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Nathan Hale
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| "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always
be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." | |
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Stephen Decatur
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| "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Patriotism is the religion of Hell." | |
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James Branch Cabell
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| "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial
reasons." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period,
found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas ..." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The proper means of increasing the love we bear to our native
country is to reside some time in a foreign one." | |
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Shenstone
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| "There are no points of the compass on the chart of true
patriotism." | |
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Robert C. Winthrop
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| "There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science" | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere
else." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I
am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its
heart." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "You"ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of
the human race." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "You"re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can"t
face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it." | |
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Malcolm X
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