"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
― Guy de Maupassant
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Patriotism
― Guy de Maupassant
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More In Patriotism
- "Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"― Blaise Pascal
- "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."― Ambrose Bierce
- "My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."― Rory Bremner