Patriotic Quotes
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However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.
Sarah Vowell
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Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.
Atiku Abubakar
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Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.
Brian Aldiss
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There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.
Wolf Blitzer
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The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that 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.
George Washington
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Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
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Before then when a party won, its workers got everything in sight. That was somethin’ to make a man patriotic.
George W. Plunkitt
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You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies.
Dmitri Alperovitch
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I'm an Australian. And I'm speaking generally here, but Australians in general aren't patriotic or nationalistic. Our country was built by immigrants. So, by my experience, I've seen the way immigration has transformed nations. They are the key people who quite literally build civilizations, be it culturally or musically.
John Hillcoat
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Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.
Evan Bayh
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I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
Cary Fukunaga
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This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.
Geert Wilders
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As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
Evan Bayh
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Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.
William Z. Foster
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If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
Thomas Sowell
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All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
Richard Aldington
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
Nan Goldin
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.
William Z. Foster