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












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More Mark Twain quotes
"There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furn...
"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...
"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.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, t...
"Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous unifor...