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I
like to see a man proud of the place in which
he lives. I like to see a man live so that his
place will be proud of him.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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"You're
not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face
reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says
it."
-- Malcom X
Patriotism
is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars
are hatched.
-- Guy de Maupassant
We
need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues
of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest
destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation
has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and
that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness
and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other
nations.
-- Francis John McConnell
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The
highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of
official policy, but a love of one's country deep
enough to call her to a higher standard.
-- George McGovern
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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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We
must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will
not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we remember that we are not descended from
fearful men, not from men who feared to write,
to speak, to associate and to defend causes which
were, for the moment, unpopular.
-- Edward R. Murrow
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Patriotism
is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above
principles.
-- George Jean Nathan
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There
are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there
are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We
are one people, all of us pledging allegiance
to the stars and stripes, all of us defending
the United States of America.
-- Barack Obama
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Can
anything be stupider than that a man has the right to
kill me because he lives on the other side of a river
and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have
not quarrelled with him?
-- Blaise Pascal
"We
should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our
boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow
sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and
thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others...
Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which
recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims
of others and which lead our country into comradeship
with...the other nations of the world."
-- Lord Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts
"Patriotism
means to stand by the country. It does not mean
to stand by the president or any other public official,
save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands
by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar
as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic
not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency
or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the
country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not
to tell the truth, whether about the president or
anyone else."
-- Theodore
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To
announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt (1918)
"Flags
are bits of colored cloth that governments use first
to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial
shrouds to bury the dead."
-- Arundhati Roy
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Patriotism
is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial
reasons.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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The
peace and welfare of this and coming generations of
Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword
of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be
kept right; when wrong to be put right."
-- Carl Schurz
I
have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness
of belonging to the human family.
-- Rosika Schwimmer
