Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. -Charles Edward Montague

 

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.


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This quote is just one of 6 total Charles Edward Montague quotes in our collection. Charles Edward Montague is known for saying 'Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.' as well as some of the following quotes.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

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War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. -Charles Edward Montague
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I was born below par to th' extent of two whiskies.

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To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. -Charles Edward Montague
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