"Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful…" — Michael Ignatieff

"Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society."

— Michael Ignatieff

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67 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A…
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces…
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the…
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for…
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive…
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life,…
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge…

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More Patriotism Quotes

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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the… — James A. Baldwin
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go… — Dave Barry
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. — Clara Barton
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's… — Joe Barton
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these… — Charles A. Beard
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of… — Jane Addams
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. — Alfred Adler
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of… — Ambrose Bierce
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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