Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Van Buren

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

For the students, it was not a question that we would win the Patriot League. For us, as players, we were like, ?Hold on!

James A. Garfield

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

James A. Garfield

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Gary Ackerman

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Hillary Clinton

Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.

Hillary Clinton

Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.

Herbert Croly

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Evelyn Waugh

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

George Washington

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

George Orwell

No one is patriotic about taxes.

George Orwell

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Frederick Douglass

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

Frederick Douglass

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Frederick Douglass

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frank Gehry

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Henry Louis Gates

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Cassandra Clare

Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—

Isaac Rosenberg

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Joe Johnson

He's an American citizen, a patriotic American, ... out of the question.

Franklin Pierce

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Franklin Pierce

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Indira Gandhi

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Jesse Ventura

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

Janeane Garofalo

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

Cassandra Clare

You don’t sound very patriotic,” observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?” “Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—” “You’re in a charming temper, aren’t you, William?” interrupted Jem, though there was no edge to his voice.