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"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
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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."
"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
"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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"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."
"It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color."
"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
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