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|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', ''A Defence of Patriotism - The Defendant'' }} |
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{{quote|"Were my heart my master, I would do exactly as you say. But what sort of knight abandons his kingdom-his king!-now, when they need him the most?."|'''Camus''', ''[[Fire Emblem]] Shadow Dragon''}} |
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|'''Stephen Maturin''', ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' }} |
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{{quote|Were my heart my master, I would do exactly as you say. But what sort of knight abandons his kingdom - his king! - now, when they need him the most?. |
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|'''Camus''', ''[[Fire Emblem]] Shadow Dragon''}} |
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{{quote|'''Soldier''': Lord Captain! We are the Red Wings, the pride of Baron! Must we now be thieves, sent to plunder from the weak? |
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|''[[Final Fantasy IV]] DS''}} |
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|'''[[Letters From Iwo Jima]]'''}} |
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| [[Samuel Johnson]] }} |
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⚫ | {{quote|The world will '''never''' know how I struggled with the decision to '''stay out''' of the electorial process. Should I have gone on television and told the voters '''not''' to elect this man? And what then? If I use my '''influence''' -- my '''character''' and my '''reputation''' -- to tell people how to vote, what does that make me? I choose to fight for Truth, Justice and the American Way. And for all it's flaws, American democracy ''does'' work... The United States doesn't need me to dictate, or worse, '''deprive''' her people of that most precious gift. The freedom of ''choice''. Even when I knew in my heart that choice was '''wrong'''. |
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| [[Superman]], ''[[Superman]]/[[Batman]]: Public Enemies'' }} |
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{{quote|'''Enoch Powell''': No, we do not fight for values. I would fight for this country even if it had a Communist government. |
{{quote|'''Enoch Powell''': No, we do not fight for values. I would fight for this country even if it had a Communist government. |
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'''Enoch Powell''': No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed. }} |
'''Enoch Powell''': No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed. }} |
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{{quote|Because today I am on state business, and I have no inclination to let private friendship override my public duty. |
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|Xu Huang, [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]}} |
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{{quote|"''But you know as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean ‘whither my country right or wrong,’ which is infamous, or ‘my country is always right,’ which is imbecile.''"|[[Aubrey-Maturin|'''Stephen Maturin''']]}} |
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