#patriotism

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. ↗

— Schuyler Colfax

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It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

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Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. ↗

— Richard Aldington

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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. ↗

— Clara Barton

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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

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But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#clean #cut #different #different times #ends

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. ↗

— George Washington

#history #patriotism #political-parties #political-philosophy #politics

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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