The Patriot (1774)
Context: Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
“Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Walter Savage Landor http://www.emersoncentral.com/walter_savage_landor.htm, from The Dial, XII (1841)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
Page 146
Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On world leaders and statesmen
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”
Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore
The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 4.
Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.
Compare: "treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all", Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 274.
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924) American statesman
Theodore Roosevelt, Address Before Congress (February 9, 1919).
“Grey was not alone in his hatred. The whole of Changi hated King.”
James Clavell book King Rat
Part 1, Ch. 1.
King Rat (1962)
Context: Grey was not alone in his hatred. The whole of Changi hated King. They hated him for his muscular body, the clear glow in his blue eyes. In the twilight world of the half alive there were no fat or well-built or round or smooth or fair-built or thick-built men. There were only faces dominated by eyes and set on bodies that were skin over sinews and bones. No difference between them but age and face and height. And in all this world, only the King ate like a man, smoked like a man, slept like a man, dreamed like a man and looked like a man.
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
"Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935).
The 1930s
