Patriot Quotes - Page 7

• What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Gun

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Patriotic, Men, Thinking

  "The Problem of Dissent". "Saturday Review" Magazine, Volume 48, December 1965.

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• I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me.  And the cost is more than I can bear.

  Benjamin Martin

  Long, Cost, Return

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• He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Men

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• A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Government

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• A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

  Abigail Adams

  Real, Men, Moral

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

  John Linder

  Long, Liberty, World

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• Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Citizens, Usurpers

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• Patriots don't let their nation default.

  Gary Ackerman

  Default, Nations

  "Patriots Don’t Let Their Nation Default" by Gary Ackerman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

  George Berkeley

  Sorry, Thinking, Soul

  George Berkeley, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1897). “The works of George Berkeley, D.D., bishop of Cloyne”

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• Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Blood, Liberty, Unalienable Rights

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.96, Penguin

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• It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.

  John Wayne

  Country, Thinking, Thank God

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• The memories of those who perished in the Warsaw Uprising cry out across the decades, and few are clearer than the memories of those who died to build and defend the Jerusalem Avenue crossing. Those heroes remind us that the West was saved with the blood of patriots; that each generation must rise up and play their part in its defense - and that every foot of ground, and every last inch of civilization, is worth defending with your life.

  Donald Trump

  Memories, Hero, Cry

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Successful, Government, Energy

  First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801

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• It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Fired Up and Emoting on the State of Politics, and More". The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 31, 2004.

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• We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

  George Orwell

  Strange, Revolutionary, Periods

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Father, Government

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• A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Moon, Men

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• A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

  Samuel Adams

  Citizens, Attention, Causes

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• Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
  Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,--
  A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled.
  Let him live usefully, and not die old!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Prayer, Children

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Book, Political, Founders

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Humanity, Patriotism

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.245, Spectra

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• I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that his wish was carried out. Piter commanded far more affection and loyalty from me than the nation as a whole. But that night, running across the unplowed fields of winter wheat, with the Fascist invaders behind us and the dark Russian woods before us, I felt a surge of pure love for my country. We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky.

  David Benioff

  Loyalty, Country, Running

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• It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.

  Anthony Romero

  Reality, Law, Justice

  "Ashcroft: Patriot Act respects rights, improves security", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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