Patriotism means the love for one's country. It makes one ready to sacrifice one's life for one's country and to do many other deeds that can bring benefits to the people. The effect is very great when it is exercised by all the people of a country. It makes a country strong, and her history glorious. It also improves a man's character and secures him a widespread fame.
To love our country, to work so as to make her strong and rich, to support her government, to obey her laws, to pay fair taxes into her treasure, to treat our fellow-citizens as we wish to be treated ourselves----this is to be a real Chinese patriot.
If the people of a country are not patriotic, the country must be very weak. History tells us how some countries of ancient time were, owing to a lack of patriotism, conquered by other peoples and how the peoples of the conquered countries were made slaves under the yoke of their victorious masters.
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