Patriotic

(211 votes)   The militia is the dread of tyrants and the guard of freemen.

Gov. R. Lucas

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(177 votes)   True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.

George Barrington
1755-1810, Irish-born Convict, Australian Historian

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(157 votes)   Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan
1882-1958, American Critic

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(155 votes)   Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

Sir Winston Churchill

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(143 votes)   I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(123 votes)   Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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(120 votes)   When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(98 votes)   How soon we forget history...Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

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(87 votes)   ''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.''

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(87 votes)   To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them...

George Mason

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(84 votes)   Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides.

Jack Handey

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(83 votes)   Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.

Patrick Henry

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(82 votes)   To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

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(81 votes)   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.

George William Curtis
1824-1892, American Journalist

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(67 votes)   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.

Albert Einstein

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