Quotes about patriot
patriotic government desire
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. Alexander Hamilton
patriotic people representatives
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
patriotic government accomplishment
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.
patriotic thinking hands
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
patriotic thinking america
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
patriotic thinking alaska
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.
patriotic men blood
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.
patriotic appreciate political
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
patriot
No true patriot could be for Ron Paul. Dick Morris
patriotic firsts september
The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th. Claire Danes
patriotism fever stones
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. Ambrose Bierce
patriotic names patriotism
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
patriotism firsts resorts
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
patriotic names america
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
patriotic thinking mind
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. Andrew Johnson
patriotic gun littles
Elevate those guns a little lower. Andrew Jackson
patriotic blood sometimes
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
patriotic government evil
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
patriotic firsts asks
Shoot first and ask questions not at all Richard Marcinko
patriotic light july
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree. Thomas Paine
patriotic political soldier
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. Thomas Sankara
patriotic america people
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. Samuel Adams
patriotic men evil
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. Thomas Jefferson
patriotic heart blood
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
patriotic hands constitution-of-the-united-states
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
patriotic rights government
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
patriotic fighting our-world
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. Tony Blair
patriotic justice feelings
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] Thurgood Marshall
patriotic eye dust
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. Thorstein Veblen
patriotism politics spirit
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.
patriotic rights citizens
It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. Rutherford B. Hayes
patriotic government overreaching
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic. Russ Feingold
patriotic president resolve
It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.