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"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
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"People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins."

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."

"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."

"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."

"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."

"I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one's own small and solitary cause."

"Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice."

"If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."

"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."

"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
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