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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

—Samuel Johnson

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

—Nathan Hale

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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!

—Malcolm X

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

—Joseph Addison

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And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

—John F. Kennedy

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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

—John F. Kennedy

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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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