Quotes about patriot
patriotic blood europe
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
patriotic people constitution-of-the-united-states
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.
patriotic men law
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.
patriotism liberty menace
Patriotism is a menace to liberty. Emma Goldman
patriotic arrogance patriotism
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
patriotic fighting intelligent
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.
patriotic fighting support
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
patriotic opportunity goodness
We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.
patriotic law earth
The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. George Mason
patriotism belief spontaneous
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. Leo Tolstoy
patriotic home practice
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
patriotic men thinking
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
patriotic men vote
A man without a vote is man without protection.
patriotic knowing problem
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
patriotic demand loyal
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth. Mahatma Gandhi
patriotic politics india
I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won. Narendra Modi
patriotic eye wind
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley
patriotic justice feelings
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive] Thurgood Marshall
patriotic eye dust
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind. Thorstein Veblen
patriotism politics spirit
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
patriotic identity cinema
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. Tom Hooper
patriotic differences humane
The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference. Toni Morrison
patriotic people ignorant
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. Samuel Adams
patriotic fire despair
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.
patriotic debt pennies
I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink. Ron Paul
patriotic omnipotence lost
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will. Ralph Waldo Emerson
patriotic new-orleans rome
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
patriotic eye america
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
patriotic patriotism monkeys
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic. Scott Ritter
patriotic killing discworld
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. Terry Pratchett
patriotism matter violence
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
patriotic fighting our-world
This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together. Tony Blair
patriotism unattractive aversion
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. Karl Kraus