“To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?”
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes

February 15th, 2006, during a press interview in Tehran's airport upon his return from a cultural conference in Malaysia.
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Blasphemy

“Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.”

Remarks in the Senate http://www.bartleby.com/73/1641.html (29 February 1872) He was here responding to the famous slogan derived from a statement of Stephen Decatur: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."

Quoted by William B. Whitman, The Quotable Politician p. 197.
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Source: By Any Means Necessary

Quoted by William B. Whitman, The Quotable Politician p. 197.
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There again we see that the frenzy of impartiality, like any other frenzy, leads to injustice.
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), pp. 187–188