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" If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! "
William Pitt
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" The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. "
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" Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired. "
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" Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. "
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" Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. "
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" Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. "
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" Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. "
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" When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. "
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" No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. "
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" The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen. "
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" I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. "
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" Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. "
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" The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle. "
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" Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America. "
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" 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. "
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" It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. "
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" Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. "
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" The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. "
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" Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? "
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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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" A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. "
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" To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about. "
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" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "
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