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• Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?”

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Ideals, Inspirational, Politics

  Tags in Change/Growth, Patriotism, Dreams, Purpose, Questions

• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

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  Tags in Patriotism, Contradicts, Behavior

• Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

  Bill Kristol

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  Tags in Patriotism, Defense

• Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

  Frank Knox

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Purpose, Patriotism

• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Patriotism, Kill

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  We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

   

  Francis John McConnell

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  Tags in Patriotism, Opposed

• Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

  George Orwell

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  Tags in Patriotism, Internationalism

• Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

  Steve Allen

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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.

  George Galloway

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  Tags in Trumpet, Patriotism

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

  Clarence Darrow

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  Tags in Patriotism, True, Injustice

• These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

  Schuyler Colfax

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• I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

  Chrissie Hynde

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  Tags in Community, Patriotism

• Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It’s all a bit silly.

  Will Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Patriotism, Claiming

• America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that “treason” is morally worse than murder or rape.

  William Blum

  Topics in America

  Tags in Patriotism, Phenomenon

• There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

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  Tags in True, Patriotism, Compass

• The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

  John Kerry

  Topics in America, Country, Politics, Sacrifice, Service

  Tags in Democrats, Republicans, Patriotism, Spirit, American

• It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

  Eric Hobsbawm

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  Tags in American, Patriotism

• The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

  H. L. Mencken

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  Tags in Patriotism, Radicals, Despair

• Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

  Henry Steele Commager

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  Tags in Authority, Patriotism, Criticism

• Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

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  Tags in Patriotism, Freedom, Courage