Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Nyerere

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

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.

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.

Pythagoras

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

Josiah Royce

Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

Thomas Jefferson

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Thomas Jefferson

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Ulysses S. Grant

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

Ulysses S. Grant

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Thomas Paine

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

Thomas Sankara

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

Richard M. Nixon

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Richard M. Nixon

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Rutherford B. Hayes

It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

Russ Feingold

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Russ Feingold

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

Victor Hugo

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Roger Ebert

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Robert Trout

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Ronald Reagan

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

Robert Jensen

The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.

Wesley Clark

I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.