Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Cuban

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Mark Cuban

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Bill O'Reilly

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

Benjamin Harrison

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

Chester A. Arthur

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Chester A. Arthur

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Charles Farrar Browne

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Bill Maher

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

Benjamin Franklin

Security without liberty is called prison.

Benjamin Franklin

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.

David Brooks

Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Brian Aldiss

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Kevin Brownlow

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Denis Diderot

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Bainbridge Colby

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

Art Linkletter

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

Alexander Hamilton

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Ann Coulter

Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

James Madison

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

Adam Smith

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Abraham Lincoln

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Aaron McGruder

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.