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#patriotism

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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

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?


Bill Maher


#better #country #critique #else #flaws

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


#acceptance #blind #call #country #deep

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


George Orwell


#always #class #hatred #internationalism #stronger

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.


Mark Twain


#country #deserves #government #patriotism #supporting

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.


Jane Addams


#affection #cannot #conception #embody #hope

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.


Robert Jackson


#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.


John F. Kerry


#both #courage #i #includes #just

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.


William Shenstone


#bear #country #foreign #increasing #love

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.


Bruce Springsteen


#best #critical #music #often #patriotism






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