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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! "

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" Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society. "

" I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country. "

Marian Anderson

" There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. "

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

Jonathan Mayhew

" She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). "

" Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. "

" I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding. "

" All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved! "

Marquis de Lafayette

" My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country. "

Walter Annenberg

" 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

" 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this. "

" The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. "

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

Franklin Knight Lane

" It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist. "

" Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. "

Michael Ignatieff

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Albert Einstein

" Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. "

" When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. "

" 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. "

" What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism. "

" My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. "

Frederick Reines

" I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs. "

Marquis de Lafayette

" Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. "

" 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

" A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte