— You don't like your country, then?
— I live in it.
— Do you, at this time, have any fear of returning to your own country?
— No.
— OK. Let me try it again. Your country's at war. There are men in the streets with guns. Political persecution.
— Yes. It's terrible.
— Yeah, it's horrible. And God only knows what could happen. Innocent people are torn from their beds.
— On Tuesdays. I hate Tuesdays.
— So you're afraid?
— From what?
— Krakozhia. You're afraid of Krakozhia.
— Krakozhia? No, I am not afraid from Krakozhia. I'm a little afraid of this room.
— I'm talking about bombs. I'm talking about human dignity. Human rights. Viktor, please don't be afraid to tell me you're afraid of Krakozhia.
— Is home. I am not afraid from my home.
Our people lose faith. He looks to me to make things right, and I, I would do it. I would see the glory of Gondor restored. have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The white tower of Ithilien. Glimmering like a spike of burning silver. Its banner caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
He who loses his motherland loses everything.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
When fighting under the native sky, force trebles.
I’ll carry this flag,
To the grave if I must.
Because it’s flag that I love
And a flag that I trust.
Patriotism — combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
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