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" Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness. "

John C. Calhoun

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Palaniappan Chidambaram

" I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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

" Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country. "

John C. Calhoun

" A nation is the same people living in the same place. "

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

" 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. "

" I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush. "

Joseph P. Bradley

" I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people. "

Michael D. Higgins

" 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. "

" If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. "

" We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government. "

John C. Calhoun

" Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families. "

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

Abraham Lincoln

" When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. "

" There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires. "

John C. Calhoun

" It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. "

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

" I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. "

" There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain. "

John C. Calhoun

" If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! "

" Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. "

" But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. "

" We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. "

" 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. "

" The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. "

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

George Bernard Shaw

" When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. "