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"I am proud to be an American Citizen."
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"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."

"Every part of Nigeria is blessed."

"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."

"As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them."

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

"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."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'"

"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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"To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie."


"It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest."


"I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge."
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