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"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."
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"Every part of Nigeria is blessed."
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"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
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"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."
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"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
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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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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
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"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.'"
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"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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"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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"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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"War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums."
War
"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."
Business
"Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil."
Money
"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."
Childhood
"It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great."
Men
"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."
Difference
"Reform is born of need, not pity."
Pity
"I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us."
God
"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."
Heart
"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."
Death
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