Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Santorum

My work with Patriot Voices actually dovetails very well into the work I'm going to be doing with EchoLight. I'll be traveling around the country, doing a lot of radio interviews, a lot of media interviews, so I don't see that as all inconsistent.

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

John Avlon

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

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

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

Alexander Hamilton

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

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.

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.

Ann Coulter

Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

Adam Smith

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Abraham Lincoln

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

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

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.

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.

David O. McKay

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

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.

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.

George S. Patton

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

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.