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The strength of a nation is built on the character of its citizens.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Author:
Howard Zinn
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My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
Author:
John Woo
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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
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Robert Winthrop
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Oscar Wilde
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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George Washington
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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!
Author:
Robert Walpole
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Author:
Howard Thurman
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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.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Author:
Parker Stevenson
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Author:
George Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Author:
George Shaw
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Author:
Bob Riley
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True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Author:
Robert Reich
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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Author:
George Orwell
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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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George Nathan
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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.
Author:
Charles Montague
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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
Author:
George Mitchell
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It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Author:
Ho Minh
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
Author:
Francis McConnell
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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Author:
Guy Maupassant
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But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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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 does it or who says it.
Author:
Malcom Malcom X
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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.
Author:
Malcolm Malcolm X
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But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
Author:
Nick Lampson
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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Author:
Frank Knox
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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
Author:
John Kerry
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Author:
Mick Jagger
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To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
Author:
Robert Jackson
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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Author:
Michael Ignatieff
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Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Author:
Michael Ignatieff
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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Author:
Michael Ignatieff
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
Author:
Chrissie Hynde
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Author:
David Hume
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In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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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.
Author:
Eric Hobsbawm
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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
Author:
George Galloway
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I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Author:
George Galloway
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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.
Author:
Mike Ferguson
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Author:
Barbara Ehrenreich
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
Author:
Rosa DeLauro
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
Author:
Rebecca Davis
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Author:
George Curtis
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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.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
Author:
Schuyler Colfax
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Author:
Edith Cavell
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Author:
Dale Carnegie
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Author:
James Bryce
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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Author:
Joseph Brodsky
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
Author:
Jack Bowman
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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Author:
Kjell Bondevik
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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Author:
Henry Bolingbroke
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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.
Author:
William Blum
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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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.
Author:
Evan Bayh
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It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
Author:
John Amery
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Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
Author:
Steve Allen
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Author:
Jane Addams
