“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)
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.”
Has Man a Future? (1962), p. 78
1960s
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