Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
Loving a country is an act of the imagination.
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.