Patriotic Quotes - Page 16

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they did not have the money, that shouldn't stop them. They would 'pay later'. To a certain extent he was correct, we are all having to 'pay later'... we may even never stop paying.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

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.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.