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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
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"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."

"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."

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."

"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

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

"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."

"I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions."

"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light."
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"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
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