Famous Quotes: Patriotism

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
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I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
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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.
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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?
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I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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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.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
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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.
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