"Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers."
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"By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful."
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"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783"
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"The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur."
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"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty."
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"I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American."
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""I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world.""
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"I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness."
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"A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being."
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"Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."
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"To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country."
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"Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all."
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"I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour."
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"Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique."
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"The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been."
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"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."
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"Patriotism covers a multitude of sins."
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"God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!"
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"Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged."
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"But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule."
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