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“ ”Patriotism does not mean that you think your country is perfect, or blameless, or even particularly likeable on balance; nor does it mean that you serve it blindly, go where it tells you to go and kill whom it tells you to kill. It means that you are committed to keeping it alive and making it better, that you will do whatever seems necessary (up to and including dying) to protect it whenever you, personally, perceive a mortal threat to it, military or otherwise.
About Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson (born 24 November 1948) is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author. Spider states that the internet rumors of his name being, or having been, Paul Robinson are incorrect.
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Additional quotes by Spider Robinson
Although many pairs of lips spoke her name, none ever brought its reality to her.
And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, <i>care</i> about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.