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Nation and Patriotism
Mark Twain
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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Mark Twain
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
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Mark Twain
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
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Mark Twain
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
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Mark Twain
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest .
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Mark Twain
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it .
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Mark Twain
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
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Mark Twain
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
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Mark Twain
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.
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Mark Twain
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Mark Twain
A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.
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