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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."
"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light."
"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.'"
"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."
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
"The last slaveholder has been dead for a very long time. The last soldier to endure Valley Forge has been dead much longer. To proudly claim the veteran and disown the slaveholder is patriotism A la carte."
"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."
"I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions."
"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."
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"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
"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."
"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."
"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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