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"Patriot" in a Sentence (15 examples)
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
An immense monument was erected in honor of the noble patriot.
The patriot sticks to his moral principles.
Frankly speaking, he is more of a hypocrite than a patriot.
I see that you're a patriot.
He was a true patriot and an able diplomat.
The president speaks as a real patriot.
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Tom is a patriot.
In living through this "great epoch," it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will! In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot.
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'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.
The aim of patriots, therefore, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be allowed to exercise over the community.
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