Patriotism is not

Patriotism is not
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
  

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It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
The property of power is to protect.
No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech
Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.
Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.
Thehardest step is over the threshold.
Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.