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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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"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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"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
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"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."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"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."
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"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters."
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"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
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"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
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"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
Politics
"So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency."
Control
"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."
Society
"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."
Life
"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."
Government
"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."
Experience
"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."
Change
"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."
People
"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."
History
"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
Power
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