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“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
Edward Abbey Quotes |
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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
Howard Zinn Quotes |
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“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
Malcolm X Quotes |
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?”
General George S. Patton Quotes |
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“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you
want our weapons come and get them.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: a response of an ancient general
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“Our country, however bounded.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: toast founded on the speech of Winthrop
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“The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink,
live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable
determination.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: Works (vol. IV, p. 8), in a conversation with Jonathan Sewell
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“Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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“Our ships were British oak,
And hearts of oak our men.”
Samuel James Arnold Quotes Source: Death of Nelson
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“From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come,
Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;
True patriots all; for be it understood
We left our country for our country's good.
No private views disgraced our generous zeal,
What urged our travels was our country's weal.”
George Barrington (formerly Waldron) Quotes Source: Prologue for the Opening of the Playhouse at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 331)
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“Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Dumfries Volunteers
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“For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Age of Bronze
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“Again to the battle, Achaians!
Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--
It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Song of the Greeks
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“Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--
It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Song of the Greeks
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“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred
toward any one.”
Edith Louisa Cavell Quotes Source: quoted by the newspapers as before being shot by Germans in Brussels, Oct. 15, 1915
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“"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would
think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying,
"My mother, drunk or sober."”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes Source: The Defendant
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“We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I
keep step to the music of the Union.”
Rufus Choate Quotes Source: in a letter to a Worcester Whig Convention
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“Our country is the common parent of all.
[Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Orationes in Catilinam (I, 7)
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