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"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
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"Every part of Nigeria is blessed."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one's own small and solitary cause."

"We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago."

"Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued "which would be your second choice His answer "France."
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"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity."

"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."

"Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows."

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
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