"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
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"I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it."
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"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."
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"Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . ."
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"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
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"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
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"I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world."
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"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."
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"While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic."
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"The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice."
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"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."
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"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."
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"One of the great attractions of patriotism"
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"He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland."
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"The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve."
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"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."
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"Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
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"Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children."
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"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
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