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When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. (McConnell Francis John)
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. (McConnell Francis John)
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother. (McConnell Francis John)
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity. (McConnell Francis John)
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. (McConnell Francis John)
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. (McConnell Francis John)
Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. (McConnell Francis John)
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. (McConnell Francis John)
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have. (McConnell Francis John)
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. (McConnell Francis John)
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. (McConnell Francis John)
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! (McConnell Francis John)
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race. (McConnell Francis John)
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. (McConnell Francis John)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (McConnell Francis John)
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. (McConnell Francis John)
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. (McConnell Francis John)
My country, always wrong. (McConnell Francis John)
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. (McConnell Francis John)
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b (McConnell Francis John)
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. (McConnell Francis John)
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