Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carter

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Jimmy Carter

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

James Monroe

National honor is national property of the highest value.

James Monroe

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

James Madison

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

James Madison

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

James Madison

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

James Madison

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Edith Cavell

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

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

Henry Steele Commager

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Narendra Modi

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Mahatma Gandhi

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

Ho Chi Minh

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Henry Ward Beecher

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself

Henry Clay

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patriotism ruins history.

Emma Goldman

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Emma Goldman

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Emma Goldman

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

John McCain

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

John McCain

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

Adlai Stevenson

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.

Henry David Thoreau

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Henry David Thoreau

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

H. L. Mencken

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.