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"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
"Independence Day is a day of truth,It stands for us,Both me and you,It gives us hope,To fight on days,When there are others against us,What more can I say.It gives us glory,Our land to share,With each other,We shall not despair.The land of freedom,Our liberty tall,She shines her torch,For one and all.The fourth of July,Is our special day,It's when we came of age,That's all I'll say.God Bless!"
"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
"Patriotism is dangerous, but kindness is always kind."
"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."
"The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved."
"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."
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
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"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."
"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."
"I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back."
"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."
"The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act."
"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed."
"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."
"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
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