Do you agree with the scholar Dr. Johnnson who said that "patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel"?
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I think Voltare said it is the first refuge of the scoundrel I think that is more correct
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Patriotism obviously represents many things to many people.  To me, it is the understanding of our historical roots in the context of the our political system and supporting it as the best approach for mankind.
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I always felt sorry for Goldstein in 1984. he was one of the revolutionary leaders who got thrown out in the name of power. there are similarities between him and Osama, but the impression given in the book is that goldstein is just trying to dismantle a terrible system (if he indeed exists) in the name of good. both certainly were used as scapegoats to prolong a war, i feel goldstein was trying to reclaim his misdirected revolution in the book.\nboth have been used to control the populations thoughts. americans as with oceania, rely heavily on the media to inform them, and having seen american tv, theres a lot going on that isn't shown on it.\nlots of comparsions i suppose.......\nchrist, finally an inspired question!! fair play to you! got me thinking about this one!! : )
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Given the diversity of our population, my opinion on this would be no. When you are a country of many diffrent race and culture, the patriotism one has for the country is not quite the same as a country with a single culture and race. Clearly, the citizens of America is very patriotic, but I would not say it is the most  patriotic country given the above factor.
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Obviously, there's no way to know for sure.  He was already a patriot (or else he wouldn't have been held prisoner) so he likely would have felt pride at any sign of ongoing resistance.  I doubt he would have written is poem, however.\n\nThere's something about a flag that encourages the kind of patriotic feelings that Francis Scott Key was experiencing.  After what must have looked like a devastating assault, to see that the flag was still standing when the smoke cleared must have been quite a sight.
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Have you ever heard John Murtha mention patriotism?
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana \n\nIt's not quite the quote you gave, but it's close.
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The original quote was actually "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them." The statement was made by George Santayana, philosopher, from Reason in Common Sense. \n\nThe quote has been tweaked a bit throughout history, perhaps to give a more modern and personal connection to the quote.
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I don't think the word 'terrorist' existed at that time.\n\nOur founding fathers were, however considered traitors to the British Government.
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Yes, it's true it was reported there first.\n\nThe real killers (plural) were the right wing conservatives at that time. Kennedy was making this country too liberal for them, he didn't like the war and was trying to stop it, they liked it, it meant big money for the defense industry.\n\nHe also cared more about people than big business. so they murdered him and blamed it on some poor sap.\n\nJohnson, who replaced him as president and escalated the war was a political conservative. He and Senator Arlen Spector invented the "single bullet theory" to mislead the public into thinking it was just a lone assasin. People are so gullible.
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Yes, absolutely.\n\nRead this e-mail. It may help you while you wrestle with this issue.\n\n We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context \n> his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an \n> immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to \n> capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant \n> college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his \n> latest book,Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - bo! th lega l and \n> illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would \n> march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American \n> Dream. \n> \n> Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and \n> gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat \n> spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the \n> United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too \n> self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that \n> hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. \n> Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and \n> that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit \n> suicide.'" \n> \n> Here is how they do it," Lamm said: \n> \n> "First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or \n> mu! lti-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can \n> survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing \n> languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be \n> bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The \n> historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of \n> bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories \n> of turmoil, tension, and tragedy." Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and \n> Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press \n> for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. \n> Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with \n> Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans. \n> Lamm went on: \n> Second, to destroy America, invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage \n> immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of \n> belief that all cultures are equal, that there are no! cultural \n> differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and \n> Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by \n> the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.â?\n> \n> Third, we could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much \n> effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.As Benjamin \n> Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of \n> our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been \n> achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that \n> once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we \n> are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm \n> said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and \n> culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl \n> metaphor. It is impo! rtant to ensure that we have various cultural \n> subgroups livin g in America enforcing their differences rather than as \n> Americans, emphasizing their similarities." \n> \n> "Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least \n> educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, \n> and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass \n> ha
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If you believe\nthat America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then\nlet's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in\nhistory has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee\nobserved that all great civilizations rise and fall and that "An\nautopsy of history would show that all great nations commit\nsuicide.'" "Here is how they do it," Lamb said:
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hell no,and i feel sorry for all my american brothers and sisters that are supporting this man and his adminastration evil ways and evil plans.there is now way you can call following this man patriotic.i am a real patriot however that is trying to fight for the greater good,the real battle,THE FIGHT FOR TRUTH.911 was an inside job and more and more people are starting to realize this.so if you do not already know,well here you go,click on this link to start the revolution in your mind.after watching just one of these videos i am now changed for ever.and freed from all the media brainwashing.god bless you man and i hope that you find out that we as americans must stop this madness.\nhttp://question911.com/links.php or\nhttp://www.wanttoknow.info/index.shtml
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Perhaps no Freemason who ever lived in America has been so condemned by some authors and praised by others as Joseph Brant, the powerful and influential Mohawk chief who sided with the British during the American Revolutionary War. On several occasions, he put into practice the Masonic virtues of brotherly love, forgiveness, and charity. On others, he exhibited cold-blooded ruthlessness, savagery and disregard for human life.\n\nWhile still in his early youth, Brant became a favorite of Sir William Johnson, the British superintendent of the northern Indians of America, who was extremely popular with the tribes under his supervision. During his time with the Iroquois, Johnson became particularly close to the Mohawk tribes. He was also a Mason and a former Provincial Grand Master of the New York colony.\n\nBrant and a number of young Mohawks were selected by Johnson to attend Moor’s Charity School for Indians at Lebanon, Connecticut--the school which in future years was to become Dartmouth College. Here he learned to speak and write English and studied Western history and literature. He is the only one of those chosen known to have derived any benefit from the educational process. He left school to serve under Sir William from 1755-1759 during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). After this, he became Sir William's close companion and helped him run the Indian Department, administered by the British out of Quebec. He also became an interpreter for an Anglican missionary and helped translate the prayer book and Gospel of Mark into the Mohawk language.
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I think it was Ben Franklin. He did believe that freedom had it's cost.
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No but that is a fantastic quote.\n\nFound it!  Thomas Dewar
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Dr. José Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda \n(June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), \n\nvariously called the "Pride of the Malay Race," "The Great Malayan," "The First Filipino," "The Messiah of the Revolution," "The Universal Hero" and "The Messiah of the Redemption." He is the national hero of the Philippines. Despite his relatively short life, Rizal's passion as a patriot together with his intelligence as one of the first Third World intellectuals of the post-colonial era have inspired succeeding thinkers and revolutionaries of the centrality of national identity as a social force in the project of nation-building. He is called by Benedict Anderson as one of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.