Nationality/Patriotism

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

-- Dave Barry

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

-- William Blake

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball documentary, 1994

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

-- Bobcat Goldthwait

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

-- Samuel Johnson

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

-- Shane Leslie

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!

-- General Douglas MacArthur

I shall return.

-- General Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.

-- General Douglas MacArthur

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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