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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. -- Robert Charles Winthrop
I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment. -- Strive Masiyiwa
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism. -- Ron Paul
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function. -- Thomas Steinbeck
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! -- Robert Walpole
Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression. -- Marjane Satrapi
The real need of the day is ... moral and spiritual rearmament ... God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind. -- Stanley Baldwin
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. -- Mark Twain
You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest... -- Barack Obama
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. -- Abraham Lincoln
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. -- Clarence Darrow
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. -- Robert Reich
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. -- Chaim Potok
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. -- Queen Elizabeth II
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I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. -- Sarah Emma Edmonds
The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed. -- William Jennings Bryan
True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. -- Robert McAfee Brown
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same. -- Robert E. Lee

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