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" If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. "

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" We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. "

Francois Hollande

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" Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! "

" Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building. "

" To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about. "

" I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. "

" The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. "

" During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.' "

" Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. "

" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind. "

" Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society. "

" I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment. "

" Patriotism is the religion of hell. "

" America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism. "

" I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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. "

" Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" My education as a filmmaker has been entirely practical. I started working professionally in the film business in 1970, and I've been at it steadily since, and I pay a lot of attention. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" I want to light the lights of patriotism. "

Lech Walesa

" 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. "

" America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. "

" But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore. "

" The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? "

" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "

" 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. "

" For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. "

" 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. "

" Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son. "