Patriot Quotes - Page 8

• We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Christian, Kings, Men

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• The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.

  Sr?a Trifkovic

  Fire, Constitution, Decree

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ... I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ... 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, Love You, Men

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.

  David Bezmozgis

  San Francisco, Here I Am, Political

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Jobs, Issues

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• Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn't that worth fighting for?

  James Connolly

  Party, Fighting, Class

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• The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

  Michael Badnarik

  Pieces, Aliens, Legislation

  Debate at Cornell University, October 6, 2004.

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• We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Ideas, America

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• Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you what I think is extreme, is a president who was raised by communists, taught by communists, who was supported by communists, and whose self-appointed, self-admitted heroes are communists. And that, I think, is un-American.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Country, Jesus

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• That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Men, Together

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• A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

  Wilhelm II

  Regret, Russia, Bankers

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• Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Giants, Addresses

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• While briskly to each patriot lip
  Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
  Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
  The quintessence of public spirit!

  John Trumbull

  Drinking, Flip, Lips

  John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56

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• I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.

  Steve Carell

  Country, Usa, Want

  Interview with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Phones, Nsa

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• I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

  John Wayne

  Flags, Honest, Goodness

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.11, Taylor Trade Publications

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• A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Texas, People

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• You're not a patriot unless even when you lose, it's still your country.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Stills, Loses

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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Acceptance, People

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• I mean, I think everyone at this level has a chip on their shoulder. Everyone's got a story. Everyone has had to go through some adversity to get to where they are at so, I guess, we all do.

  Julian Edelman

  Mean, Adversity, Thinking

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• 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, Dream, Years

  'America the Beautiful' (1893)

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• I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

  Jay Roach

  Thinking, Democracy, Flawed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Kings, Enemy, Allies

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• I mean there's a college kid left in everyone. I bet you, too, if you could go back you would for a night or two, so why not? My brother's still in college, my little brother, so it's always good to go back and get a little glimpse of it and to hang out with him for a weekend or two.

  Rob Gronkowski

  Brother, Mean, Kids

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• If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.

  Brian Billick

  Winning, Nfl, Pockets

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