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"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
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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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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
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"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."
Man
"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
Wisdom
"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
Liberty
"Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory."
Poetry
"Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind."
Intelligence
"Nature makes woman to be won and men to win."
Nature
"Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge."
Anger
"Happiness lies first of all in health."
Happiness
"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
Imagination
"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."
Reflection
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