| Quotations on the subject: Nationality |
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism; how passionately I hate them.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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