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My preferred addition, usually attributed to Carl Schurz, is to add "if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." to the phrase. That addition changes it from a statement of blind obedience to a statement of social responsibility.

I think being a patriot is caring about the people of your country, all of them, even the ones you don't like, not the country or the state.

If you do that, war is the last thing you want.

Well, Poland us doing the right thing right. Germany may have transcended the Third Reich but they are doing exactly the same mistake that the UK did pre 1939.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/cham...