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"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."
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"Every part of Nigeria is blessed."
"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
"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."
"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
"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 is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
"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.'"
"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."
"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."
"On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses."
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"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."
"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."
"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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