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"In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism."
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"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I have never felt so alive-so free-so proud. I love my country. I love my America."
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"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."
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"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."
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"America is a willingness of the heart."
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"In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism."
Patriotism
"I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness."
Life
"First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures."
Politics
"My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area."
Family
"My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that."
Family
"You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it."
Politics
"The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care."
Health
"When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history."
History
"From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time."
Life
"I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge."
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