
For the 249th US Independence Day, a quote from Mark Twain's essay, “The Czar's Soliloquy,“ published in The North American Review, March 1905:
“The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.“
For the full essay, which says a lot more: https://archive.org/details/jstor-25105366/page/n1/mode/2up
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