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Letter "P" » patriotism
«Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.»
«Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism»
«Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.»
«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.»
Author: David Hume
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«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
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«Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.»
«Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.»
«Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism»
«Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.»
«Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.»