#patriot

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You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?


George S. Patton Jr.


#men

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.


Ho Chi Minh


#communism #inspired #me

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.


Mikhail Bakunin


#anarchist #chomsky #communism-patriotism-inspiration #lenin #leninism

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine.


William Arthur Sirmon


#france #germany #historical-romance #history #inspirational

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.


Winston Churchill


#liberty #patriot-act #politics #freedom

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.


Clara Barton


#blood #father #patriot #veins #warm

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.


Bernadine Dohrn


#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.


Henry Steele Commager


#authority #criticism #dangerous #equate #find

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.


Joe Conason


#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.


George Galloway


#flags #fooling #means #patriotism #people