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Quote by Robert Walpole
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. – Robert Walpole

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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! – Robert Walpole

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Patriotism
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Robert Walpole
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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. – Robert Walpole

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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober. – G. K. Chesterton

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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. – E.A. Storrs

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The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible. – Marquis De Custine

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