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"The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

"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."

"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters."

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

"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."

"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."

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

"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."

"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."
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"There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed."

"Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation."

"It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow."

"No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic."

"The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry."

"We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration."

"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."
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