Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Steele Commager

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Narendra Modi

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Mahatma Gandhi

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself

Emma Goldman

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Emma Goldman

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.

John McCain

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

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Cassandra Clare

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—

James Buchanan

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

James A. Garfield

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

James A. Garfield

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Chris Matthews

The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.

George Washington

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Franklin Pierce

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Franklin Pierce

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

George Orwell

No one is patriotic about taxes.

George Orwell

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Frederick Douglass

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

Frederick Douglass

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Frederick Douglass

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frank Gehry

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Grover Cleveland

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.