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Letter "P" » patriot
«I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.»
Author: Alec Baldwin
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Actor)
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Keywords:
arch,
arched,
banner,
choked,
My Country,
patriot,
patriotic,
spangled,
spangles,
The Star,
The Star Spangled Banner
«A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.»
«A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.»
«A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot»
«A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.»
«I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Keywords:
e'en,
existing,
i.e.,
I E,
legends,
loyal,
Order of,
patriot,
patriotism,
patriots,
prose,
stank,
stink,
stunk
«'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'»
«In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
costs,
hated,
in the beginning,
join,
patriot,
scarce,
scarcer,
scarcest,
scorned,
succeeds,
The Patriot,
timid
«He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.»
Author: Voltaire
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Philosopher,
Writer)
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About:
Death,
Funny,
Praise
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Keywords:
course,
coursed,
coursing,
dead,
humanitarian,
loyal,
of course,
patriot,
provided,
really,
The Patriot
«It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.»