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爱国主义
Patriotism
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
他们在战争时期是爱国的，因为这符合他们的利益，但在和平时期，他们追随权力和美元，无论走到哪里。
The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
人民不可能面面俱到，而且总是消息灵通。错误的部分将会随着他们所误解的事实的重要性而感到不满。
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
真正爱国主义的概念已经丧失，这个词已经被用在最坏的目的上。一个爱国者,先生!啊，爱国者像蘑菇一样冒出来了!
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
这个国家所需要的——每个国家偶尔都需要的——是一场好的、艰苦的、血腥的战争，以重振爱国主义的恶习。
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
那些赢得我们独立的人…将自由视为目的和手段。他们认为自由是幸福的秘密，勇气是自由的秘密。
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
当权者总是认为批评他们的政策是危险的。他们总是把自己的政策等同于爱国主义，认为批评具有颠覆性。
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
当人们把地球真正看作是一个与星星相对的小球体时，很难看出更为极端的民族主义形式如何能长久存在下去。
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
当我们从旧时代跨入新时代，当一个时代结束，当一个长期受到压制的国家发出声音的时候，一个时刻来临了，这在历史上是罕见的。
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
向各地勇敢地为祖国事业奋斗的士兵和水手致敬。同时，也要向那些在战场上关心兄弟，并尽其所能为同样的事业服务的公民致敬。
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
爱国主义……是通过谎言和谎言的网络人为地创造和维持的迷信;迷信剥夺人的自尊和尊严，增加人的傲慢和自负。
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
每一个好公民都把自己国家的荣誉作为自己的荣誉，不仅珍惜，而且神圣。他愿意冒着生命的危险去保护它，并且意识到他在给予保护的同时也得到了保护。
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
爱国主义最大的吸引力之一——它满足了我们最坏的愿望。以我们国家的名义，我们可以间接地欺凌和欺骗。欺侮和欺骗，更重要的是，我们觉得自己是非常善良的。
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
民族主义是一种幼稚的疾病。它是人类的麻疹。
Patriotism ruins history.
爱国主义历史遗迹。
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
我没有国家可以为之战斗;我的祖国是地球，我是世界的公民。
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
自由之树需要不时地用爱国者和暴君的鲜血浇灌。
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
如果你想要一个象征性的姿态，不要烧掉国旗;洗它。
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
我们的国家并不是我们唯一应该效忠的国家。这也归功于正义和人类。