Quotes about patriot
patriotism descent critique
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. Henry Louis Gates
patriotic dragons honor
Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my— Cassandra Clare
patriotism hell
Patriotism is the religion of hell. James Branch Cabell
patriotic men presidential
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. James Buchanan
patriotic joints ruts
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. James A. Garfield
patriotic people soul
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
patriotic two political
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
patriot default nations
Patriots don't let their nation default. Gary Ackerman
patriotic reason unfaithfulness
The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic. Chris Matthews
patriotic exercise rights
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens. George Washington
patriotic soul patriotism
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana
patriotic unions entwined
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined. Franklin Pierce
patriotic presidential political
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
patriotism shows
Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show George Peppard
patriotic patriotism taxes
No one is patriotic about taxes. George Orwell
patriotic justice democracy
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.
patriotic fighting dignity
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom Frederick Douglass
patriotic men looks
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
patriotic reflection moral-growth
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
patriotic power greatness
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
patriotic rights freedom-of-speech
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
patriotic people feel-good
Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough. Frank Gehry
patriotic thoughtful fishing
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen. Grover Cleveland
patriotic exercise different
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
patriotic government people
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
patriotic wind judging
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. Hugo Black
patriotism movement prison
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. Huey Newton
patriotism mob-rule form
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Howard Zinn
patriotic
He's an American citizen, a patriotic American, ... out of the question. Joe Johnson
patriotic fighting insulting
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. George Bernard Shaw
patriotism form idiocy
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
patriotism rather spirit
some spirit of patriotism rather than partisanship will prevail. Jeb Bush
patriotism debate twisted
How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American? Janeane Garofalo