Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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.

George Mason

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

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.

Narendra Modi

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

Thurgood Marshall

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]

Thorstein Veblen

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.

Tom Hooper

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Toni Morrison

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

Samuel Adams

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

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.

Ron Paul

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Scott Ritter

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Terry Pratchett

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

Tony Blair

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

John Locke

In the beginning, all the world was America.

Pythagoras

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Josiah Royce

Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

Thomas Jefferson

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Thomas Jefferson

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.