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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-01-20

An inauguration day twofer:

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry." -- Frank Zappa (I have also seen him quoted as saying, "Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex," but the first version seems to be more frequently cited.)

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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 11:05am on 2005-01-20
I like these. They sum my feelings about where I was born quite neatly, and reassure me that I am, as I've always maintained, a patriot in the face of my government and its antics.
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Let's see what people have said ...

posted by [identity profile] kara-h.livejournal.com at 01:51pm on 2005-01-20
US politicos ...
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
-- Justice Anthony Kennedy

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
-- John F. Kennedy


And not ...
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
-- Picard, ST:TNG, quoting a fictional judge, "The Drumhead"

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
-- Lord Acton

"Patriotism is thinly veiled racism."
-- Albert Einstein
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Re: Let's see what people have said ...

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:28pm on 2005-01-26
Thank you, by the way. I'll recycle some of these. :-)
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Re: Let's see what people have said ...

posted by [identity profile] kara-h.livejournal.com at 12:11am on 2005-01-27
Yes, I collect only the finest in quotes. :-)

I use various ones in my email signatures. it is not unusual for me to get a reply that only talks about the quote.
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posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 02:22pm on 2005-01-20
Do you guys know of any quotes to the effort that nationialism is the modern form of idolatry? I'm convinced it's true, but I don't have the religious background to thunder about it adequately.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 10:05pm on 2005-01-21
I'm sure I've seen that expressed, but have so far been unable to remember where. (Unless I'm misremembering a conversation with you as an article I've read, in which case we're looping. But I think I've read something that agreed with you...)
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