PATRIOTIC

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(650 votes)  seldom have so few done so much for so many

winston churchill

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(581 votes)  I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

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(426 votes)  Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

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(415 votes)  The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

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(406 votes)  Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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(404 votes)  Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Thomas Jefferson

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(354 votes)  It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Alfred Adler
1870-1937, Austrian Psychiatrist

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(283 votes)  The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

Samuel Adams

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(282 votes)  If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

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(257 votes)  Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

Sir Winston Churchill

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(240 votes)  Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(236 votes)  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.

Aldous Leonard Huxley

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(233 votes)  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

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(232 votes)  ... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(231 votes)  A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey
1927-1989, American Writer

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(228 votes)  What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(226 votes)  Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Spiro T. Agnew
1918-1996, American Vice President

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(199 votes)  Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(198 votes)  Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler
1851-1933, American Educator, Social Critic

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(182 votes)  A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(167 votes)  I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(159 votes)  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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(155 votes)  Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

Mahatma Ghandi

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(155 votes)  Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

George Washington

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(152 votes)  He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(150 votes)  I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(149 votes)  You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(149 votes)  ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(144 votes)  Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher

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(143 votes)  The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

James Earl Jones

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(142 votes)  Who saves his country violates no law.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(141 votes)  Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American Psychologist

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(136 votes)  Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville
1819-1891, American Author

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(136 votes)  How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton
1862-1937, American Author

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(135 votes)  Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

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(134 votes)  Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan
1882-1958, American Critic

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(133 votes)  When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(132 votes)  Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides.

Jack Handey

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(131 votes)  During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

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(128 votes)  No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(126 votes)  A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(117 votes)  God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Luis Bunuel
1900-1983, Spanish Film Director

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(115 votes)  Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis
1885-1951, First American Novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature

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(115 votes)  You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(115 votes)  A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis
1824-1892, American Journalist

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(114 votes)  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale
1755-1776, American Revolutionary Soldier

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(111 votes)  Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer
c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet

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(108 votes)  Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Lawrence Durrell
1912-1990, British Author

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(106 votes)  Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.

Patrick Henry

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(105 votes)  The militia is the dread of tyrants and the guard of freemen.

Gov. R. Lucas

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