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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's
flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its
symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the
principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets
it forth.
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-Henry Ward Beecher
"The National Flag", 1861
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*["She" is Ayn Rand, born
in Russia.] Once, a heckler demanded: "Who the hell are you to talk about
America? You're a foreigner!" Calmly, she answered: "That's right. I
chose to be an American. What did you do, besides having been
born?" The crowd laughed and applauded-and the heckler was silent.
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-Barbara Branden
The Passion of Ayn Rand, 1986
Part III, "The Fountainhead", Chapter Fourteen
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If anyone attempts to haul down the American
flag, shoot him on the spot.
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-John Dix
Telegram to W. Hemphill Jones, January 29, 1861
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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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-Albert Einstein
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I believe in-- and am proud to belong to-- the
United States. Despite shortcomings from lynchings to bad faith in high
places, our nation has the most decent and kindly practices and foreign
policies to be found anywhere in history.
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-Robert Heinlen
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Nation, n. A society united by its ancestry
and a common hatred of its neighbors.
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-W.R. Inge
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There, I guess King George will be able to
read that!
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-Thomas Jefferson, on placing his boldly
written signature on
The Declaration of Independence, July
4, 1776
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The notion that a radical is one who hates
his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes
his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the
rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to
crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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-Henry Louis Mencken
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be
killed for trivial reasons.
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-Bertrand Russell
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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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-George Bernard Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world until you
knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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-George Bernard Shaw
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All racists who are prepared to die for
their country, please do that now.
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-Unknown
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