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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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El amor es una amistad con momentos eróticos. ↗

— Antonio Gala

#friendship #love #friendship

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

— Clarence Darrow

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Robert Frost

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1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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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. ↗

— William Blum

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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism. ↗

— John Bolton

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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. ↗

— George Borrow

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