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Carl Schurz: “I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: ‘Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.’” more

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Louis D. Brandeis: “Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”

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Frederick Douglass: “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

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William Ellery Channing: “The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

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Carl Schurz: “The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, ‘My country, right or wrong.’ In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” more

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Richard Aldington: “We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may. Which of us were fortunate -- who can tell? For you there is silence and cold twilight drooping in awful desolation over those motionless lands. For us sunlight and the sound of women's voices, song and hope and laughter, despair, gaiety, love -- life. Lost terrible silent comrades, we, who might have died, salute you.”

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Betty Williams: “Patriotism kills.”

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Thomas Jefferson: “The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.”

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Barack Obama: “The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.”

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Margaret Chase Smith: “Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize. The right to hold unpopular beliefs. The right to protest. The right of independent thought.”

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Richard Aldington: “Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.”

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Paul Farmer: “The only real nation is humanity.”

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: “When Socrates was asked where he came from, he said that he was a citizen of the world. He regarded himself as a citizen of the universe.”

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Howard Zinn: “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

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Howard Zinn: “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

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George Santayana: “A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

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George Jean Nathan: “Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”

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Zora Neale Hurston: “I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.”

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Mark Twain: “The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”

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Bill Vaughan: “A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”

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Sinclair Lewis: “Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every country.”

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George Bernard Shaw: “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

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Sinclair Lewis: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” more

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Jane Addams: “Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”

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Felix Adler: “Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.”

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Carl Schurz: “My Country! When right keep it right; when wrong, set it right!”

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John Kerry: “I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.”

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William O. Douglas: “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”

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H. L. Mencken: “In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”

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