The
heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten
road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing
armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God
to the temporal interest of the clergy.
-- David Hume
What
we need are critical lovers of America - patriots
who express their faith in their country by working
to improve it.
-- Hubert Humphrey
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One
of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills
our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we
are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully
and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are
profoundly virtuous.
~ Aldous Huxley
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If
there is any fixed star in our constellation, it is
that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what
shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion,
or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess
by word or act their faith therein.
-- Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson
Patriotism
is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson
Patriotism
does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of
liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.
-- Wendy Kaminer
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Ask
not what your country can do for you, but what you
can do for your country.
-- John
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"I
criticize America because I love her. I want her
to stand as a moral example to the world."
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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