“Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.”
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke 43
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As quoted in "American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials which Have Taken Place in the United States, from the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day", Vol. 13, 1921

“Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.”
This is actually a portion of statement by the British nurse Edith Cavell the night before her execution by German forces on charges of espionage.
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April 28, 2003 at the annual Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Day fund raising dinner in Connecticut.
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)

Though said the night before her execution this statement has often been presented as having been her last. Variants of these words have sometimes been misattributed to Florence Nightingale. "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone." is inscribed beneath her statue at St. Martin's Place in London.
Last statements (1915)

Letter (12 January 1936); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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