Bryce |
James |
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." |
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Burke |
Edmund |
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." |
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Chesterton |
Gilbert Keith |
"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'." |
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Churchill |
Winston |
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills: we shall never surrender." |
Speech in the House of Commons, 4 June 1940 |
Cicero |
Marcus Tullius |
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." |
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Curtis |
George William |
"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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Darrow |
Clarence |
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." |
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Fosdick |
Harry Emerson |
"He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland." |
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Franklin |
Benjamin |
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." |
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Hale |
Nathan |
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." |
Sept. 21, 1776 |
Heinlein |
Robert |
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue—and thoroughly immoral—doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." |
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Ingersoll |
Robert |
"He loves his country best who strives to make it best." |
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Jefferson |
Thomas |
"...That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed." |
Declaration of American Independence, 1776 |
Kipling |
Rudyard |
"God gave all men all earth to love, |
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Lincoln |
Abraham |
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him." |
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Lincoln |
Abraham |
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." |
April 6, 1859 |
Mazzini |
Giuseppe |
"Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him." |
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Mill |
John Stuart |
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." |
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Paine |
Thomas |
"These are the times that try men's souls: 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. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph." |
The Crisis — December, 1776 |
Pitt |
William |
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." |
Nov. 18, 1783 |
Reagan |
Ronald |
"It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work — work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it." |
First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981 |
Roosevelt |
Franklin Delano |
"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." |
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Scott |
Walter |
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, |
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Seneca |
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"Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own." |
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Shakespeare |
William |
Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, the gods themselves throw incense. |
King Lear, Act V, iii |
Stevenson |
Adlai E. |
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." |
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Thucydides |
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"A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country." |
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Washington |
George |
"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation." |
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Washington |
George |
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." |
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