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Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist, and philosopher, born on June 22, 1805, and died on March 10, 1872. He was a leading figure in the movement for the unification of Italy and is considered one of the most influential figures in Italian history. more

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“I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.”

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Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
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“O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.”

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Book:The Duties of Man and Other Essays
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“I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.”

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Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
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