Patriotic

(50 votes)   He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(50 votes)   Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur
1779-1820, American Naval Commander

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(50 votes)   Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.

D. D. Field

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(49 votes)   A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Richard Henry Lee

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(49 votes)   How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

Albert Einstein

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(48 votes)   The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.

Thomas Jefferson

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(48 votes)   Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(47 votes)   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

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(46 votes)   Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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(46 votes)   It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Thomas Jefferson

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(45 votes)   Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.

Noah Webster

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(42 votes)   In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.

Mark Twain

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(42 votes)   My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(42 votes)   Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

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(41 votes)   Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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