Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Jeb Bush

some spirit of patriotism rather than partisanship will prevail.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Thomas Jefferson

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

Thorstein Veblen

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Thomas Jefferson

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Roy Wilkins

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Thomas Jefferson

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Newt Gingrich

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

Newt Gingrich

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Marisa Tomei

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by....