"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

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Source : George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

George William Curtis

#Loyalty Quotes #Country Quotes #Memorial Day Quotes

“Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.”
“Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.”
“There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.”
“Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.”
“Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.”

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“Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but were going to fight it with socialism.”
“No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.”
“When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.”

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