Quotes about patriotic
patriotic practice indulge-in
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised. Matthew Yglesias
patriotic voting slavery
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. John Quincy Adams
patriotic reflection government
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
patriotic pyramids honor
[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was. Mary Antin
patriotic men people
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. Martin Van Buren
patriotic government debt
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.
patriotic people radio
I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do. Margaret Thatcher
patriotic fighting ink-and-paper
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Mark Twain
patriotic passion government
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. James K. Polk
patriotic president leisure
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
patriotic opposites soldier
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism. George Galloway
patriotic america blood
If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right? Henry Rollins
patriotic europe asia
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. Eric Hoffer
patriotic careers patriotism
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism. John Bolton
patriotic men america
A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States. Harry S Truman
patriotic fate destiny
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
patriotic apology political
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
patriotic men years
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
patriotic england proud
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. H. G. Wells
patriotic passion humor
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. H. L. Mencken
patriotic government church
What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit in which we might take it, the spirit in which we might spend it, is the leaven that might leaven the whole lump. Let us be patriotic; let us love the government under which we live. J. Reuben Clark
patriotic patriot filibuster
I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged. Rand Paul
patriotic patriotism taxes
No one is patriotic about taxes. George Orwell
patriotic justice democracy
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.
patriotic reason unfaithfulness
The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic. Chris Matthews
patriotic joints ruts
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. James A. Garfield
patriotic people soul
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
patriotic two political
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
patriotic men presidential
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. James Buchanan
patriotic thoughtful fishing
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. Grover Cleveland
patriotic exercise different
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
patriotic government people
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
patriotic wind judging
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. Hugo Black