Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

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

Dwayne Johnson

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Colin Powell

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

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.'

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.

America Ferrera

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Claire Danes

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

David O. McKay

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Andrew Johnson

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Andrew Jackson

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

George S. Patton

Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.

Alexander McQueen

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

Harold Brown

It's supposed to be a patriotic thing for the whole community. I would really like to see us get along.

Adlai Stevenson

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.

Cassandra Clare

You don’t sound very patriotic,” observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?” “Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—” “You’re in a charming temper, aren’t you, William?” interrupted Jem, though there was no edge to his voice.

Kim Campbell

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

Nathanael Greene

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

George H. W. Bush

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

George H. W. Bush

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

George H. W. Bush

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

George H. W. Bush

Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!

George H. W. Bush

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

George H. W. Bush

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

George H. W. Bush

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.