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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

— Edward Abbey

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

— Mark Twain

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

— Voltaire

From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

— Thomas Steinbeck

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

— E. W. Howe

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

— William Cowper

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

— John Dryden

No man is a hero in his own country.

— John Monash

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

✗Opposing Perspectives

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

— Francis Scott Key