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Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school c

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. – S.I. Hayakawa

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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Conformity
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

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Failure
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Justice & Law
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson

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It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. – John Amery

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Patriotism

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy. – Ann Coulter

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Patriotism

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary… is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. – Robert Jackson

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