Gilbert K. Chesterton said this quote

“ '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.' ”

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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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.

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