The last in the patriotism series.
The American Syndrome:
If you have a weak candidate and a weak platform, wrap yourself up in the American flag and talk about the Constitution.
– Matt Quay
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be “American” before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? It is really too easy a disguise for our shortcomings to dress them up as a form of patriotism.
– Edith Wharton
The 100 percent American is 99 percent an idiot.
– George Bernard Shaw
Treason is in the air around us everywhere. It goes by the name of patriotism.
– Thomas Corwin
Three relatively positive assessments of patriotism:
A patriot is somebody who protects his country from his government. Or better yet: who has the guts to protect his country from its government.
– Piotyr Dirk
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
– George Washington
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
– Thomas Jefferson
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