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" Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! "

Albert Einstein

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" I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. "

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" I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. "

" I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. "

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" Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake. "

" Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. "

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" We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system. "

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" Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny. "

" I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together. "

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" Patriotism is the religion of hell. "

James Branch Cabell

" To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. "

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" The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. "

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" True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. "

Bernadine Dohrn

" The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. "

" To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. "

George Santayana

" Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to. "

A. Philip Randolph

" For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema. "

" Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. "

Henry Steele Commager

" The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world. "

" We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. "

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" Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor. "

" I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. "

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" The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. "

" Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. "

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" Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. "

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" Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. "

" The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. "

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" If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. "

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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. "

" There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. "

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