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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."

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

"It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

"The army is the true nobility of our country."

"Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America."
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"Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."

"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."

"In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders."

"If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow."

"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."
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