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

Walter Annenberg

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" It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis. "

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Joseph P. Bradley

" Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. "

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Malcolm Jenkins

" It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. "

" 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. "

" Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy. "

" Americans never quit. "

Douglas MacArthur

" It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. "

" I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? "

" Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. "

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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. "

Lincoln Steffens

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

Jonathan Mayhew

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

Marian Anderson

" 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

" The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. "

Stonewall Jackson

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Henry Louis Gates

" Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

Antonio Lobo Antunes

" I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes. "