Quotes about patriot
patriotic reflection government
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams
patriotic flags wave
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? John Wayne
patriotic voting slavery
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
patriotic practice indulge-in
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised. Matthew Yglesias
patriotic pyramids honor
[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was. Mary Antin
patriotic men people
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. Martin Van Buren
patriotic government debt
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.
patriot economic barack
Barack Obama is an economic patriot. Ted Strickland
patriotic issues safety
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. Theodore Roosevelt
patriotic men ignorant
It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
patriotic men asking-permission
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
patriotic equality men
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
patriotic hands class
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
patriotic consent i-can
I can never consent to being dictated to. John Tyler
patriotic passion government
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. James K. Polk
patriotic president leisure
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
patriotic government people
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. George Bancroft
patriotic rights people
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
patriotic america blood
If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right? Henry Rollins
patriotism matter doe
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. Malcolm X
patriotic government hands
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice. John Adams
patriotic europe asia
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. Eric Hoffer
patriotic opposites soldier
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism. George Galloway
patriotic careers patriotism
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism. John Bolton
patriotic return needs
You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return. Steve Stivers
patriotic men evil
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. Thomas Jefferson
patriotism liberty civil-rights
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
patriotic heart blood
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
patriotism trying may
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
patriotic hands constitution-of-the-united-states
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
patriotic rights government
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
patriotic soldier patriotism
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance. Stanley Milgram
patriotic exercise long
Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE. Stephen Colbert