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Quotes By subject - Starting with P - Patriotism
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There are 30 quotes for the subject Patriotism
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Author: Voltaire
Source: 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
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And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Author: Mark Twain
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Author: Albert Einstein
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DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: Devil Dictionary
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
Author: Mark Twain
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Author: Homer
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Author: H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: Hansard, June 10, 1941
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Author: Winston Churchill
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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