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The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.
-African Proverb
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-Edward Abbey
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
-Joseph Addison
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
-Alfred Adler
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Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
-Felix Adler
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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
-Baha'u'llah
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
-James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son
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True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
-George Barrington
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
-Henry Bolingbroke
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Who saves his country violates no law.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
-George Borrow
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
-James Bryce
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
-Luis Bunuel
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
-Edmund Burke
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The love of one
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Executed (shot) for helping allied soldiers to escape from Brussels to neutral territory in Holland during World War I.http://www.edithcavell.org.uk/
-Edith Cavell, Last words
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
-G. K. Chesterton
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My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
(note: Clinton borrowed from Eisenhower for this one)
-William Jefferson Clinton
First Inaugural Speech, January 20, 1993
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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
-George M. Cohan
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
-Calvin Coolidge
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
-George William Curtis
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The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
-Marquis De Custine
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Books about Patriotism
