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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

—John Adams

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The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

—Indira Gandhi

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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

—Homer

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

—Homer

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

—H. L. Mencken

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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

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

—G. K. Chesterton

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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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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

—William Shakespeare

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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

—William Shakespeare

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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

—William Shakespeare

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I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

—William Shakespeare

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

—William Shakespeare

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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

—William Shakespeare

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