Quote by Henry Bolingbroke
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by gr

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. – Henry Bolingbroke

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. – Henry Bolingbroke

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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. – George Washington

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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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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some dont. – Todd Gitlin

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. – Horatio Nelson

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