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"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th US president, 1917-63) "I regret that I have but one life to give to my country." (Nathan Hale, American Patriot, final words, executed by the British, 1776) "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." (Samuel Johnson) "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." (Oscar Wilde) "The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face." (George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four)
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