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"What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?"
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"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
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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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"Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued "which would be your second choice His answer "France."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. But there is an anti-patriot who honestly angers honest men, he is the uncandid candid friend; the man who says, "I am sorry to say we are ruined," and is not sorry at all. Granted that he states only facts, it is still essential to know what are his emotions, what is his motive. It may be that twelve hundred men in Tottenham are down with smallpox; but we want to know whether this is stated by some great philosopher who wants to curse the gods, or only by some common clergyman who wants to help the men."
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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."
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"Large countries' patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country."
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"You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July."
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"America is a willingness of the heart."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Military
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."
History
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
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"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."
Communication
"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."
Society
"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
Leadership
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
Leadership
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."
Politics
"These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle."
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