Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

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Homer (; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros; possibly born c. 8th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly revered in ancient Greek society...

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There is nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

The only cure for grief is action.

More quotations tagged with “patriotism”

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

—H. L. Mencken

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

—George Bernard Shaw

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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

—George Bernard Shaw

The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.

—G. K. Chesterton

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.

—Bertrand Russell

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