True Patriotism Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Expression, Law, Usa

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• 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

  Father, Social, Interpretation

  "John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism" by Thomas Steinbeck, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

  Livy

  Spring, Heart, Maturity

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