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"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
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"Every part of Nigeria is blessed."

"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."

"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."

"We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago."

"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."

"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"

"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
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