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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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 |
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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not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
-- John F.
Kennedy |
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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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