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Letter "P" » Patriotism
«A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Government,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
country, defend, His country, patriot, ready, The Patriot
«We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.»
Author: General George Catlett Marshall
| About:
Determination,
Freedom,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
flag, on the one hand, overwhelming, recognized, symbol, throughout
«A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Country,
Loyalty,
Patriotism,
Principles
| Keywords:
area, land area, loyalty, rivers, woods
«Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.»
Author: James Bryce
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
allegiance, flag, flag waving, owed, righteous, waving
«Ask not what you can do for your country, for they are liable to tell you»
«America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.»
«[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.»
Author: Theodore Parker
| About:
America and Americans,
Betrayal,
History,
Nations,
Patriotism,
Rebellion
| Keywords:
creeds, fatherland, Fatherlands, infidelity, mother church, rebellious, treason, whole blood
«Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Patriotism,
Sin
| Keywords:
bend, ceased, conceived, dissension, distress, iniquity, The Service
«A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Ideals,
Nations,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
honors, remembers
«A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
common interest, refers, regulated
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