About Patriotism

indianajoe · 11-05-2007, 04:31 AM

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

BumeBumeMaghnseeny · 11-11-2007, 01:05 PM

In a letter from John Adams to then President Thomas Jefferson about the Jesuits we read,

Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as painters, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell it is this Society of Loyola’s.

11-05-2007, 04:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
indianajoe Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,434 Rep Power: 779	About Patriotism I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James A. Baldwin There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. William J. Clinton Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Guy de Maupassant Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire __________________

11-11-2007, 01:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
BumeBumeMaghnseeny Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 86 Rep Power: 0	In a letter from John Adams to then President Thomas Jefferson about the Jesuits we read, Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as painters, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell it is this Society of Loyola’s.