#patriot

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cliff #fallen #good #his #man

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#country #desperate #drunk #ever #except

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#beneficent #come #courage #deity #develops

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ↗

— Diogenes

#am #citizen #greek #i #i am

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#behavior #civilized #consider #contradicts #desirable

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world. ↗

— John Linder

#around #before #continue #freedom #helping

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#continuous #cry #emergency #fear #fervor

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#blind #face #face reality #matter #reality

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization. ↗

— Randy Moss

#england #i #i am #kind #new

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling