#otis

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. ↗

— George McGovern

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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. ↗

— John Milius

#commander #director #egotism #even #field

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#crushes #despotism #enforcing #god #individuality

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#custom #despotism #everywhere #hindrance #human

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#blood #from time to time #liberty #needs #patriots

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #class #hatred #internationalism #stronger

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly. ↗

— Will Thomas

#been #bit #claiming #flag #his

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

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