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"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."

Todd Gitlin 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 Todd Gitlin

  • "American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions."

  • "American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions."

  • "There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."

  • "Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."

  • "I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."

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