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Patriotism is not a short frenzied burst of emotion, but the long and steady dedication of a lifetime.
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
David Hume
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
George Galloway
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Ron Paul
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
Jimmy CarterComment
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