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"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
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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."
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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. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
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"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."
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"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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"I have never felt so alive-so free-so proud. I love my country. I love my America."
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"He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born, and where he was born didn't choose him."
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"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."
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"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
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"It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on."
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"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
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"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."
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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
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"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."
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"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."
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"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."
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"I drink to make other people interesting."
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