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"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
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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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"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
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