Patriotism Quotes
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A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
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Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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We have intelligence, and virtue, and patriotism. All that is required is to cultivate and perpetuate these.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
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Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.
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The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts... the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.
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Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.
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Patriotism alone is not enough.
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The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
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I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
