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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

Richard Aldington

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The Colonel's Daughter

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Aldington, Richard. The Colonel's Daughter. Chatto and Windus, 1931.

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Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism."

Notorious

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Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

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A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Carlo Goldoni

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Goldoni, Carlo. La Pamela [The Pamela]. 1750, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, Italy, act 1, sc. 16.

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Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.

Charles Churchill

The Farewell

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Churchill, Charles. The Farewell. London: W. Flexney, 1764, I. 27.

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England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-My country!

William Cowper

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Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 2.

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Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 2.

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The more foreigners I saw, the more I loved my homeland.

Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy

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Belloy, Pierre-Laurent Buirette de. Le Siège de Calais. 1765, Comédie‐Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 3.

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There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians.

Robert Graves

Goodbye to All That

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Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. Jonathan Cape, 1929.

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Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front." The Country of Marriage. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is at home.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Family Values." The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed. HarperCollins, 1991.

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The love of our country, as the term has usually been understood, has too often been found to be one of those specious illusions which are employed by impostors for the purpose of rendering the multitude the blind instruments of their crooked designs.

William Godwin

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Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793, bk. 5, ch. 16.

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Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Oxford University Press, 2013, bk. 5, ch. 16.

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I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Edith Cavell

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Cavell, Edith. Final words. 12 Oct. 1915, National Shooting Range, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium.

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I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend.

Dan Rather

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Rather, Dan. "The Problem with Patriotism." Bring 'Em On: Media and Politics in the Iraq War. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.

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