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"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."

David Hume on Patriotism

More quotes about Patriotism

  • "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

    Ronald Reagan on Patriotism

  • "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

    Albert Einstein on Patriotism

  • "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

    John F. Kennedy on Patriotism

  • "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."

    Mark Twain on Patriotism

  • "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."

    John F. Kennedy on Patriotism

More quotes by David Hume

  • "This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."

  • "Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."

  • "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

  • "Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."

  • "Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."

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