#otis

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australian #commitment #desire #love #movement

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ↗

— Voltaire

#become #enemy #good #lamentable #mankind

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

#been #idea #like #lost #mushrooms

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

#failure #found #imperatives #internationalism #most

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ↗

— George Washington

#against #guard #patriotism #pretended

This town was built on nepotism. ↗

— Damon Wayans

#nepotism #town

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#despotism #government #laws #may #whatever

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical. ↗

— Jack White

#came #catholic #catholic guilt #come #egotistical

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#vicious #virtue

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. ↗

— John Woo

#concerned #family #films #friendship #honor