Patriotic quotes
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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.
-- Aaron McGruder -
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
-- Adam Smith -
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
-- Alan Bullock -
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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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.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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.
-- Alexander McQueen -
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.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
-- Alfred Adler -
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
-- Alice Waters -
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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.
-- America Ferrera -
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
-- Anatole France -
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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
-- Andrew Jackson -
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
-- Andrew Jackson -
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
-- 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 -
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Elevate those guns a little lower.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.
-- Andrew Jackson -
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
-- Andrew Johnson -
I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
-- Andy Rooney -
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I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.
-- Andy Serkis -
Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -
I think Americans are very patriotic.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
-- Art Linkletter -
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
-- Ayn Rand -
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.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
-- Barack Obama -
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
-- Barack Obama -
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
-- Barack Obama -
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
-- Barack Obama -
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
-- Barack Obama -
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
-- Barack Obama -
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
-- Barack Obama -
Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.
-- Barack Obama -
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.
-- Barack Obama -
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
-- Barry Goldwater -
Security without liberty is called prison.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
-- Benjamin Rush -
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
-- Benjamin Rush -
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
-- Benjamin Rush -
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
-- Benjamin Rush -
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
-- Benjamin Rush -
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
-- Benjamin Rush -
The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!...My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.
-- Bertrand Russell -
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
-- Billy Graham -
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
-- Boake Carter -
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Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.
-- Brian Aldiss -
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.
-- Byllye Avery -
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 -
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
-- Charles de Gaulle -
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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
-- Chris Kyle -
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
-- Chuck Baldwin -
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
-- Colin Powell -
Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.
-- Daniel Ellsberg -
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
-- Dave Barry -
I've always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I've always been a proud person, I'm very patriotic.
-- David Beckham -
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I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.
-- David Burge -
I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'
-- Denis Fahey -
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
-- Dick Cheney -
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
-- Doc Hastings -
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Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.
-- Doug Casey -
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
-- Douglas Adams -
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
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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.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
-- 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 -
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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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.
-- 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 -
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
-- Edmund Burke -
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
