Quote by Adlai Stevenson
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Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? – Adlai Stevenson

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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. – Adlai Stevenson

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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson

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Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone elses? – Wallace Shawn

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. – Edmund Burke

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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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Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. – Janet Suzman

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