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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."
"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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