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" The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. "

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" America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism. "

" One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. "

" There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. "

" It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America. "

" We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better. "

" The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. "

" To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. "

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" 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. "

" Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake. "

" Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. "

" 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. "

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" So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. "

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

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

" You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. "

" I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment. "

" It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. "

" '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.' "

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" Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. "

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" We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. "

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" The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. "

" Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. "

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