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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.: Sir Henry Wotton
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.: General G. C. Patton
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.: Forster
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.: Roger Baldwin, founder ACLU
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.: L. P. Hartley
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country.": Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.: Teddy Roosevelt
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), The Need for Roots (1949)
Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.: John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)

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