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Fourth of July thoughts.


Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell


Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw


You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free. - Clarence Darrow


If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
- Frederick Douglass


A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey