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Edith Cavell
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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 enoug
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William Jefferson Clinton
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Executed (shot) for helping allied soldiers to escape from Brussels to neutral territory in Holland during World War I.
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Albert Einstein
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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.
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Indira Gandhi
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(note: Clinton borrowed from Eisenhower for this one)
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Kahlil Gibran
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
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Nathan Hale
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
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Adlai Stevenson
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We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will y
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George Bernard Shaw
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Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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Earl Warren
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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Voltaire
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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William Shenstone
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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George Santayana
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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Blaise Pascal
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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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Guy de Maupassant
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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John F. Kennedy
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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.
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William R. Inge
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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Albert Einstein
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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!
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Eugene V. Debs
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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
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George William Curtis
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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.
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Calvin Coolidge
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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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Arthur C. Clarke
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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Pablo Casals
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Richard Aldington
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Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
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Samuel Johnson
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, 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.
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Guy de Maupassant
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Clarence Darrow
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Calvin Coolidge
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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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Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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George Bernard Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Albert Einstein
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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
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Albert Einstein
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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!
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Ronald Reagan
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Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
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Edith Cavell
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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 enoug
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Charles De Gaulle
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Malcolm X
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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George William Curtis
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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.
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Henry Steele
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Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
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Aldous Huxley
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One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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Barry Schwartz
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Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money.
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Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
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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!
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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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.
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I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
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"Patriotism...is the egg from which wars are hatched." -de Maupassant
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