Patriotic Quotes - Page 20

The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

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

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

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