Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Aaron McGruder

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

John Avlon

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

I am a patriot and I have a responsibility to fulfil.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

George S. Patton

Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.

America Ferrera

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Claire Danes

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Colin Powell

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

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. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Alexander McQueen

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

Dwayne Johnson

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

Dick Morris

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

David O. McKay

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

Andrew Johnson

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Andrew Jackson

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

He was one of the most patriotic people I've ever met.

For the students, it was not a question that we would win the Patriot League. For us, as players, we were like, ?Hold on!

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Billy Graham

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Madeleine Albright

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.