Quotes on patriotism

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial and article as Freedom should not be highly rated.

Thomas Paine
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“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial and article as Freedom should not be highly rated.”

Thomas Paine
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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
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history of this quote “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.” by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
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“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.”

George Bernard Shaw
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