"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders." - Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889
"Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?"
Adlai Stevenson
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
thanks to 'an american aries'
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
great quotes
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Well, thank you. My quotation obsession can now spread to other people! : )
I have a good one , too:
"All we are saying is give peace a chance"
John Lennon
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