Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

Jon Stewart

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

Plutarch

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

George Mason

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

Joe Biden

Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.

Leo Tolstoy

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Pythagoras

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

John Dryden

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Locke

In the beginning, all the world was America.

Karl Kraus

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Julius Nyerere

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Marshall McLuhan

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Mark Hatfield

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Pat Buchanan

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Noam Chomsky

The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

Joe Conason

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

Mark Twain

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

Nathanael Greene

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

Margaret Thatcher

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

Mark Twain

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Mark Twain

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Leon Trotsky

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Learned Hand

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Learned Hand

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

Harry S Truman

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

Harry S Truman

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S Truman

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

Harry S Truman

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Rand Paul

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

Michelle Obama

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.