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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

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There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furn...more

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phras...more

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

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The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities wh...more

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the pruden...more

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it c...more

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Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to...more

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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.