Patriotic Quotes - Page 9

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

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.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we wanted it, this is not the time to do it; it would raise more contradictions in the Patriotic Front.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

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.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration!"

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