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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...

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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai mu...

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Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners...

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The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ...

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The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...

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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 ear...

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I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as grea...

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Ahdaf SoueifIn the Eye of the Sun

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the ...

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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4...

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Al FrankenLies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not...

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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness f...

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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a l...

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

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However she redefined herself, that part of one that made for the core of the self, that part that w...

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[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of fa...

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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words...

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The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a communit...

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One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, ...

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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AristotleSelected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul...

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So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch ...

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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bo...

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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing gove...

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More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall to...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around ...

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Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their design...

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The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our ...

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A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who...

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Bertrand RussellThe Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you th...

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Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and ...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have ever...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presi...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaed...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they thro...

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Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the ...

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The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the reli...

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What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but ...

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Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or n...

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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than...

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Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for o...

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If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the...

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This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between p...

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

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

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

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From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of ou...

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America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only beca...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation...

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Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses t...

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Dave BarryBest. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an Am...

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When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How goo...

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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patrio...

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1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or ...

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Edward AbbeyConfessions of a Barbarian

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really har...

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Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assum...

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Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and f...

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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, ...

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war,...

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A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

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Eugene V. DebsVoices of a People's History of the United States

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

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Eugene V. DebsVoices of a People's History of the United States

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants t...

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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human r...

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To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were ...

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American be...

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You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being sho...

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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themsel...

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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since i...

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Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way th...

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

I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within t...

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It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing t...

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It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them...

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It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of the...

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When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellect...

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George OrwellFacing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.