#patriot

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. ↗

— James Otis

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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

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I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires. ↗

— Joe Conason

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Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

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I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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