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"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized."
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"People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins."
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
"Large countries' patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country."
"If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong."
"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."
"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders."
"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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