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{{quote|"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]'''}}▼
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{{quote|"But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile."|'''Patrick O'Brian'''}}▼
|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', ''A Defence of Patriotism - The Defendant'' }}
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|'''Stephen Maturin''', ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' }}
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|'''Camus''', ''[[Fire Emblem]] Shadow Dragon''}}
'''Cecil''': "Enough."▼
'''Soldier''': "But, Lord Captain! The Mysidians offered no resistance! And still we cut them down!"▼
'''Cecil''': "Listen to me. We did no more than what our kingdom's peace and prosperity required us to do. The Mysidians knew too much of the Crystal and its secrets. His Majesty deemed it so. We are the Red Wings of Baron! It is not our place to question the orders of our king."|''[[Final Fantasy IV]] DS''}}▼
{{quote|'''Soldier''': Lord Captain! We are the Red Wings, the pride of Baron! Must we now be thieves, sent to plunder from the weak?
{{quote|'''American general''': "You mean your convictions or your country's convictions?"▼
'''General Kuribayashi''': "Are they not the same?"▼
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'''American general''': "Spoken like a true soldier."|'''[[Letters From Iwo Jima]]'''}}▼
▲'''Cecil''':
|''[[Final Fantasy IV]] DS''}}
{{quote|Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel|Samuel Johnson}}▼
|'''[[Letters From Iwo Jima]]'''}}
{{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'''."|[[Superman]], [[Superman]]/[[Batman]]: Public Enemies}}▼
| [[Samuel Johnson]] }}
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| [[Superman]], ''[[Superman]]/[[Batman]]: Public Enemies'' }}
{{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. }}
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|Xu Huang, [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]}}
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