#riot

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. ↗

— James Madison

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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? ↗

— Bill Maher

#better #country #critique #else #flaws

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

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I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#disguise #others #patriotism #popularity #under

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. ↗

— John McCarthy

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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. ↗

— George McGovern

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Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. ↗

— David O. McKay

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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