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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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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."
"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."
"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
"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."
"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."
"I have never felt so alive-so free-so proud. I love my country. I love my America."
"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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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own."
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