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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

"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."

"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."
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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes."
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