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• Ask not what your country can do for you⁠—ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)

• ‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober’.

  G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “A Defence of Patriotism”

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  Oscar Wilde1854–1900

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