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You're not
supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face
reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
-- Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black
Leader, Activist
God has given
you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you
cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love
not the common mother.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
1805-1872, Italian Patriot,
Writer
O my Brothers!
love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which
God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we
love and are loved by, and with which we have a more
intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than
with others; a family which by its concentration upon a
given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements,
is destined for a special kind of activity.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
1805-1872, Italian Patriot,
Writer
Let America
first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she
praises... the best excellence in the children of any other
land.
-- Herman Melville
1819-1891, American Author
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for
his country, it is a sign that he expects to be
paid for it.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956,
American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real
estate above principles.
-- George Jean
Nathan
1882-1958,
American Critic
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of
his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves
the love and thanks of man and woman.
-- Thomas Paine
1737-1809,
Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
A
man who is good enough to shed his blood for his
country is good enough to be given a square deal
afterwards. More than that no man is entitled
to, and less than that no man shall have.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
1858-1919,
Twenty-sixth President of the USA
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