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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
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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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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us."
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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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"If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan."
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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."
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"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
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"Patriotism is the religion of hell."
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"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
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"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war."
Government
"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."
War
"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates."
People
"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
Society
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
Patriotism
"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane."
Action
"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children."
Time
"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."
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"Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people."
People
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
People
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