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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. -
E J Hobsbawm
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. -
Thomas Paine
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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -
George Jean Nathan
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. -
H L Mencken
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. -
Herman Melville
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O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity. -
Giuseppe Mazzini
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. -
Bertrand Russell
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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 says it. -
Malcolm X
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -
George Santayana
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. -
Homer
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. -
Horace
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home. -
Henry James
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... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. -
John F Kennedy
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When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. -
Lao Tzu
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. -
Sinclair Lewis
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God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother. -
Giuseppe Mazzini
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. -
Henry David Thoreau
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. -
Lawrence Durrell
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