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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? "
Wallace Shawn
Country
Love
Someone
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" Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. "
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" If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it. "
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" I have been with Donald for 18 years, and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism because, like me, he loves this country so much. "
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" It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. "
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" Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society. "
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" America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism. "
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" There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. "
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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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" But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone. "
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" It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you. "
John Dos Passos
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" Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. "
Louis D. Brandeis
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" I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. "
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" Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. "
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" I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it. "
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" If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. "
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" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "
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" The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. "
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" Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. "
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" I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television. "
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" I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. "
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" The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? "
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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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" I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit. "
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" It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. "
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" There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. "
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" Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house. "
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