爱国主义Nationality/Patriotism[英语名人名言]

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"What a glorious morning for America."
-- Samuel Adams, said to John Hancock following a battle

 

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 orphan1.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries

 

Freedom is a contagious2 blessing3.
-- Stephen Covington

 

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

 

Patriotism4 is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson

 

I have not yet begun to fight
-- John Paul Jones

 

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 form 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, rapacious5, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

 

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill

 

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

 

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate6 sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

 

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard7 die for his.
-- General George Patton

 

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana

 

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed

 

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee

 

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise

 

Patriotism is the virtue8 of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde

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1 orphan QJExg     
n.孤儿；adj.无父母的
参考例句：
  • He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大，并且把自己的医术传给了他。
  • The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。
2 contagious TZ0yl     
adj.传染性的，有感染力的
参考例句：
  • It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
  • He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。
3 blessing UxDztJ     
n.祈神赐福；祷告；祝福，祝愿
参考例句：
  • The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
  • A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。
4 patriotism 63lzt     
n.爱国精神，爱国心，爱国主义
参考例句：
  • His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
  • They obtained money under the false pretenses of patriotism.他们以虚伪的爱国主义为借口获得金钱。
5 rapacious hAzzh     
adj.贪婪的，强夺的
参考例句：
  • He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
  • Rapacious soldiers looted the houses in the defeated city.贪婪的士兵洗劫了被打败的城市。
6 illiterate Bc6z5     
adj.文盲的；无知的；n.文盲
参考例句：
  • There are still many illiterate people in our country.在我国还有许多文盲。
  • I was an illiterate in the old society,but now I can read.我这个旧社会的文盲，今天也认字了。
7 bastard MuSzK     
n.坏蛋，混蛋；私生子
参考例句：
  • He was never concerned about being born a bastard.他从不介意自己是私生子。
  • There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard.据说没有办法买通那个混蛋。
8 virtue BpqyH     
n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力
参考例句：
  • He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
  • You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

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