Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beat Siegenthaler

Any sophisticated investor will recognize the country is not about to fall apart.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Vajira Premawardhana

The talks are very important for the market because the economic development of the country depends on the outcome. If the country is dragged into a war it's going to be a real problem for us.

Kim Yuna

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

Anthony Chan

The terrible, devastating effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, when we see those things on TV, we know we don't feel as good about our country or even about ourselves.

Mark Elliot

The thing with cross country is that it is your top five that determine how you finish in a meet. We finished seventh, which is not where we'd like to be, but overall we were pretty good.

Nicholas Sparks

I've made numerous speeches for Alzheimers associations around the country for eight years now.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

Ralph Stanley

I've always called my music old time mountain music or old time country music. I've never really called my music bluegrass.

Aristotle

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Aesop

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Andy Rooney

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

Thomas Jefferson

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

Thomas Jefferson

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

Thomas Jefferson

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

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.'

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Claire Danes

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

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all