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41 " The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you! "
42 " These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national media in New York; and you don't have a recognizable, long-simmering conflict like the one between the Israelis and the Palestinians, where people in the richer nations can take sides and argue over at the dinner table. The best you can do is get the United Nations involved, as in East Timor. Maybe they'll send troops." " We don't want the United Nations" Mr. Nanabragov said. " We don't want Sri Lankan troops patrolling our streets. We're better tan that. We want America. "
43 " But people misunderstand warfare and think it is an end unto itself. But on the international stage, war is nothing more than another tool of diplomacy. If your country doesn’t have a credible, powerful military force capable of bringing pain, death, and destruction to an enemy, then your diplomats can’t get much done, because you simply aren’t powerful—there’s no threat of pain they can wield. That’s why the western Pacific island nation of Nauru doesn’t have a seat on the UN Security Council. Not recognizing this principle is shortsighted (no disrespect intended to the fine people of Nauru). "
44 " Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. "
― Mark Twain
45 " Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism. "
― Henry Clay
46 " Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it. "
― Jacob M. Appel , The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
47 " You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed. "
48 " English is not the language every person speaks, every country has different language, don't change your cultures letting western language or cultures affect it trust me you have many reasons to be proud of your country and the cultures. "
49 " I thought that exile meant you had to leave your country and you could go anywhere--somewhere in the sun, a tropical island, say, or America. But exile doesn't mean that; it means you are banished to a specific place, and guess what, that place isn't in the sun and is no paradise, it's not even America. It's some cold, miserable place like Siberia, where you don't know anyone and you can barely survive. It's another prison. "
― Sally Green , Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)
50 " Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. "
― Bangambiki Habyarimana , The Great Pearl of Wisdom
51 " Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy "
52 " You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality "
53 " Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may. "
54 " The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "
55 " Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need - not as a call to battle though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out " rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man. "
56 " Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may. "
57 " The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "
58 " When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. "
59 " Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good. "