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Patriotism Quotes
"We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held."
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"Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements."
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"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
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"There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people."
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"I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American."
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"Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country."
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"Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today."
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"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
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"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
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"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
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"The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony."
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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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"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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"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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"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
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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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"There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism."
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"The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise."
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"America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago."
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"The average American is nothing if not patriotic."
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"Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it."
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"These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea."
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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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"What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?"
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"Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism."
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"America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world."
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"A star for every State, and a State for every star."
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"America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape."
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"True patriotism is doing something for your country."
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"The army is the true nobility of our country."
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"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."
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"Patriotism is the religion of hell."
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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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"To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged."
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"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
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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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"We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us."
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"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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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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"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."
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"The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me."
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"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House."
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"America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about."
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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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