So it is the Fourth of July.
Here are quotations about patriotism.
Let us not give up our resolve to bring to justice the current administration in Washington. Our country deserves to punish those who have stolen the lives of our countrymen, and robbed our national treasury...in order to profit from an illegal, horrible, false war!
"Patriotism ruins history."
Goethe
"My country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober."
G.K. Chesterton
"Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit."
Emma Goldman
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
Edward R. Murrow
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." (1918)
Theodore Roosevelt
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