![[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.](/assets/img/quote-photos/patriotism-is-a-word-which-always-commemorates-a-robbery-there-isnt-a-foot.jpg)
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