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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. ~Theodore Roosevelt
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ~George William Curtis
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ~William R. Inge
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. ~James Madison
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ~Will Rogers
America is my country and Paris is my hometown. ~Gertrude Stein
America is the best half-educated country in the world. ~Nicholas M. Butler
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ~Oscar Wilde
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. ~Margaret Thatcher
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ~Oscar Wilde
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ~Virginia Woolf
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.~Pat Paulsen
At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better. ~Armstrong Williams
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. ~Mason Cooley
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. ~John F. Kennedy
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. ~Karl Kraus
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. ~Steven Wright
Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? ~Adlai Stevenson
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.~ Theodore Roosevelt
He loves his country best who strives to make it best. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. ~Winston Churchill
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board. ~Warren Buffett
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ~Socrates
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. ~Harry S. Truman
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. ~Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ~James A. Baldwin
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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. ~Mikhail Baryshnikov
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. ~Thomas Jefferson
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
If God is just, I tremble for my country. ~Thomas Jefferson
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. ~William Shakespeare
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. ~Ronald Reagan
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ~Confucius
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson
In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ~Nelson Mandela
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ~Sun Tzu
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. ~Voltaire
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ~Mark Twain
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~Arthur C. Clarke
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah
It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. ~Ronald Reagan
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. ~Ronald Reagan
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ~George W. Bush
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ~Tecumseh
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. ~Mark Twain
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. ~Seneca
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ~Thomas Jefferson
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ~John F. Kennedy
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. ~Mark Twain
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. ~Richard Aldington
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. ~Lily Tomlin
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No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. ~George S. Patton
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. ~Ann Landers
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. ~S.I. Hayakawa
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ~Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ~Mark Twain
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ~Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. ~E.A. Storrs
Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. ~Oscar Wilde
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~George Bernard Shaw
Public opinion in this country is everything. ~Abraham Lincoln
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ~Steven Biko
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. ~Thomas Sowell
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. ~Mitt Romney
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. ~Sun Tzu
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. ~Samuel Adams
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?" ~Will Rogers
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. ~Earl Warren
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George S. Patton
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. ~Thomas Jefferson
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. ~George Meredith
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. ~William Shakespeare
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them. ~Barack Obama
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ~Thomas Paine
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. ~Sun Tzu
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. ~John F. Kennedy
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ~Victor Hugo
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ~Walt Whitman
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. ~Winston Churchill
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~Will Rogers
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. ~Clint Eastwood
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ~Anais Nin
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To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. ~Buddha
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~Kurt Vonnegut
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ~George Orwell
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. ~Theodore Roosevelt
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. ~Ronald Reagan
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. ~Ambrose Bierce
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. ~Winston Churchill
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Where liberty is, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. ~Robert Frost
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. ~Frank Zappa
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You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. ~Barry Goldwater
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws. ~Ron Paul
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. ~Winston Churchill
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board. ~Warren Buffett
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ~Socrates
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. ~Harry S. Truman
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. ~Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ~James A. Baldwin
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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. ~Mikhail Baryshnikov
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. ~Thomas Jefferson
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
If God is just, I tremble for my country. ~Thomas Jefferson
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. ~William Shakespeare
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. ~Ronald Reagan
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ~Confucius
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson
In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ~Nelson Mandela
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ~Sun Tzu
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. ~Voltaire
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ~Mark Twain
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~Arthur C. Clarke
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah
It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. ~Ronald Reagan
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. ~Ronald Reagan
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ~George W. Bush
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ~Tecumseh
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. ~Mark Twain
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. ~Seneca
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ~Thomas Jefferson
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ~John F. Kennedy
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. ~Mark Twain
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. ~Richard Aldington
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. ~Lily Tomlin
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No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. ~George S. Patton
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. ~Ann Landers
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. ~S.I. Hayakawa
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ~Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ~Mark Twain
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ~Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. ~E.A. Storrs
Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. ~Oscar Wilde
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~George Bernard Shaw
Public opinion in this country is everything. ~Abraham Lincoln
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ~Steven Biko
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. ~Thomas Sowell
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. ~Mitt Romney
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. ~Sun Tzu
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. ~Samuel Adams
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?" ~Will Rogers
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. ~Earl Warren
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George S. Patton
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. ~Thomas Jefferson
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. ~George Meredith
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. ~William Shakespeare
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them. ~Barack Obama
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ~Thomas Paine
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. ~Sun Tzu
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. ~John F. Kennedy
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ~Victor Hugo
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ~Walt Whitman
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. ~Winston Churchill
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~Will Rogers
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. ~Clint Eastwood
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ~Anais Nin
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To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. ~Buddha
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~Kurt Vonnegut
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ~George Orwell
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. ~Theodore Roosevelt
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. ~Ronald Reagan
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. ~Ambrose Bierce
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. ~Winston Churchill
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Where liberty is, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. ~Robert Frost
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. ~Frank Zappa
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You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. ~Barry Goldwater
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws. ~Ron Paul
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ~George Bernard Shaw