Patriot Day September 11 2012
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
No matter that patriotism
Patriot Day September 11 2012
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
I distinguish, between nationalism
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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff
The love of one's country is a splendid thing
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
It was patriotism, not communism
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It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Ho Chi Minh
Intellectually I know that America
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
The proper means of increasing the love
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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.
William Shenstone
137 years later, Memorial Day remains
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137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings
The patriot blood of my father
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Clara Barton
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
Robert Walpole
The very idea of true patriotism is lost
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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
Robert Walpole
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson
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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
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
The most tragic paradox of our time
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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.
Earl Warren
They are patriotic in time of war
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They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
A nation is a society united by a delusion
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge
We do not consider patriotism desirable
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
I am not an Athenian or a Greek
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Patriotism is when love of your own people
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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.
Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is an instant reaction
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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Mick Jagger
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism
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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.
Arthur C. Clarke
It is the patriotic duty of every man
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler
True patriotism hates injustice
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
Patriotism is easy to understand in America
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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
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barry
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism is the willingness to kill
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
Can anything be stupider than that a man
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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?
Blaise Pascal
Each nation feels superior to other nations
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
It is lamentable
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
You'll never have a quiet world
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Patriotism is your conviction
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Let every nation know
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain
Heroism on command
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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!
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
When I saw others straining toward God
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When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
The only courage that matters
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Every evening I turn my worries
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Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley
I couldn't help but say
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I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~Ronald Reagan, 1985
a final comfort that is small
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...a final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem
Sometimes even to live
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
The real differences around the world
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The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ~William J. Clinton, 1997
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless
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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen
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