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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who read more
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
 Again to the battle, Achaians!
 Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
  Our land, the first garden of read more 
 Again to the battle, Achaians!
 Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--
   It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free. 
 Where's the coward that would not dare
 To fight for such a land?  
 Where's the coward that would not dare
 To fight for such a land? 
 Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome 
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how read more 
 Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome 
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I 
hate them! 
 A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
 [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]  
 A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
 [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.] 
Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
 I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I 
know no South, no North, no East, no read more 
 I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I 
know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any 
allegiance. 
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
 Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight?
 Who blushes at the name?
  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,
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 Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight?
 Who blushes at the name?
  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,
   Who hangs his head for shame?