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"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
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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."
"America is a willingness of the heart."
"Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation."
"Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America."
"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism."
"Where liberty is, there is my country."
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
"If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description."
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
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