Travlyr I have nothing else to say to you...you just saif you will take up arms against me to protect the State...not the country, nation, or people (which are all synonymous), but the State (a totally separate entity). I don't care what you think you meant by that...look up those words...or better yet, read this you statist, nationalist, anti-patriot sociopath:
Traitors and Patriots: The Difference Between Nationalism and Patriotism
traitor - a person who betrays his or her country, cause, friends, etc.; one guilty of treason or treachery
(Notice it doesn't say "state" or "government", as the word "country" above does not mean either of those things. In fact, "country, "nation", "society", and "people" are all synonyms, all meaning basically the same thing...the physical people, their society, culture, and other cohesive identifiers. "State" and "government" often come in conflict with "country" and the like. For this reason, support for your government where it hurts your country is treasonist.)
Patriotism
is a love and devotion to one's country. It has had different meanings over time and its meaning is highly dependent upon context, geography, and philosophy.
It is a related sentiment to nationalism, but nationalism is not necessarily an inherent part of patriotism.
(Notice again, "country" is the word, not "state" or "government".)
The English term patriot is first attested in the Eliabethan era, via Middle French from Late Latin (6th century) patriota "fellow countryman", ultimately from Greek πατριÏ�της (patriÅ�tÄ“s) "fellow countryman". The abstract noun patriotism appears in the early 18th century.
(Notice again, "countryman"...see the theme?)
Nationalism
involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. It can also include the belief that the state is of primary importance, or the belief that one state is naturally superior to all other states. It is also used to describe a movement to establish or protect a homeland (usually an autonomous state) for an ethnic group. In some cases the identification of a national culture is combined with a negative view of other races or cultures. National flags, national anthems, and other symbols of national identity are often considered sacred, as if they were religious rather than political symbols. Deep emotions are aroused.
Gellner and Breuilly, in Nations and Nationalism, contrast nationalism and patriotism. "If the nobler word 'patriotism' then replaced 'civic/Western nationalism', nationalism as a phenomenon had ceased to exist."
(As you can see, nationalism is not patriotic, it can be opposed to patriotism in fact, as it finds blind allegiance to a government to be preferable to true national interests, the interests of society, the interests of the people, and the interests of the country. A simple example is fascist nationalism, where the nations were effected detrimentally by their governments interests. Secrecy is rarely about true national security, it's usually about government security, and therefore nationalist, not patriotic.)
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-Edward Abbey
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-Henry Brookes Adams
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.
-Samuel Adams
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
-Samuel Adams
The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack... These actions apparently arise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals.
-quote found at the American Library Association
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.
-Ezra Taft Benson
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.
-Justice Louis D. Brandeis
If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.
-Tom Braun
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
-Henry Steele Commager
The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.
-Elmer Davis
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
-Eugene Debs
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
-Declaration of Independence
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-Albert Einstein
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let me write the songs of a nation - I don't care who writes its laws.
-Andrew Fletcher
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
-Ben Franklin
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
-Elbridge Gerry
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-Johann Wolfgang von Geothe
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
-G. Edward Griffin
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
-Nathan Hale
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
-Frederich August von Hayek
Love your country, but never trust its government
-Robert A. Heinlein
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
-Patrick Henry
The following quotes are from Mark Twain:
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
"Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood of his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"- with his mouth."
"Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
"We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan."
"The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been."
"[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn."
"...the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it."
Dude, you make me sick.
