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

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" Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. "

Winston Churchill

" There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. "

" Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor. "

" 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. "

" Americans never quit. "

Douglas MacArthur

" The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. "

" I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition. "

Palaniappan Chidambaram

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

" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

" One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. "

" Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. "

" My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down. "

" The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped. "

Michael Mandelbaum

" 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? "

" Big Brother is watching you. "

" I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. "

Michael Ignatieff

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

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" Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. "

" Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. "

" 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. "

" Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. "

Richard Aldington

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

" Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. "

Charles Edward Montague

" Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. "

" What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? "

" The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. "

" The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! "

" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "

" True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. "

Abraham Lincoln