#patriot

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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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humor #the-patriotic-murders #beauty

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. ↗

— George Canning

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A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The average American is nothing if not patriotic. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. ↗

— George Galloway

#advocate #dr #english #great #i

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#always #between #difference #experience #foreign