Patriotic Duty Quotes

“The solitary chess game Rick is playing when the camera first focuses on him inCasablancawas a real game Bogart was playing by mail with Irving Kovner of Brooklyn. Bogart would play chess with anyone at any time, and, when he was makingCasablancahe was also doing his patriotic duty by playing a number of mail games with sailors in the U.S. Navy.
Whatever the quality of his game, Bogart loved chess. "I enjoy chess because there's no luck to it," he told Ezra Goodman.”
― Aljean Harmetz, Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

“There may come a day when some Least Generation of Americans finally surrenders to sloth and envy and throws away all that has been bought by long years of labor and toil, lifetimes of accumulated treasure, centuries of accumulated wisdom, and, ultimately, the life-blood of countless patriots.
“What we have to ask ourselves—you and I, right here and right now—is whether we are that generation, and whether that day is today.”
-Jake O’Connor in The Very Last War by WH Hawthorne”
― W.H. Hawthorne, The Very Last War

“[My friend has] missed another fundamental truth: that great generations have always arisen in this nation in the darkest hours of her most desperate need; that we are the sons and daughters of those generations, some of us by blood, more by philosophy; and that we are not less than they were.”
-Jake O’Connor in The Very Last War by WH Hawthorne”
― WH Hawthorne

“Genocide is patriotism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations