Famous Quotes: Patriotism

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.
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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
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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.
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Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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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.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
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They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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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.
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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