Quotes about patriot
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 patriotism lasts
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Samuel Johnson
patriotic thinking together
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. Ronald Reagan
patriotic white logic
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. Robert Jensen
patriotic thinking america
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. Wesley Clark
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
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
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 simple humanity
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. Victor Hugo
patriotic firsts asks
Shoot first and ask questions not at all Richard Marcinko
patriotic light july
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 Paine
patriotism want versions
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. Todd Gitlin
patriotic support troops
Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops Toby Keith
patriotism totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. Steve Allen
patriotic america people
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.
patriotic rights citizens
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. Rutherford B. Hayes
patriotic government overreaching
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic. Russ Feingold
patriotic president resolve
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.
patriot environmentalist
We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots. Van Jones
patriotic millions
There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans. Wolf Blitzer