Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Lao Tzu

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Ho Chi Minh

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

William Shakespeare

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

George Clooney

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

Kenneth Clark

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

George Mason

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Marisa Tomei

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

Newt Gingrich

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

Newt Gingrich

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by....

Malcolm X

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.