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Patriotism Quotes
"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength."
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"In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism."
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"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."
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"1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves."
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"The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it."
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"America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world."
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"I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens."
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"A star for every State, and a State for every star."
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"What else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves-our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?"
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"Patriotism is the religion of hell."
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"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."
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"Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom."
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"I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House."
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"Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years."
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"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
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"It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle."
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"But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism."
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"Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found."
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"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
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"In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time."
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"On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
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"America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush."
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"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
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"A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it."
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"Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus."
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"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."
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"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."
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"America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy."
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
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"Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families."
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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"The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you."
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"The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world."
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"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."
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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 United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
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"But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present."
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"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
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"We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us."
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"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
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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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"We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile."
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