Patriotic Quotes - Page 19

• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Heart, Destiny

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• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Blood, Liberty

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• No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

  Alan Bullock

  Integrity, Firsts, Unorthodox

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• Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Courage, Men, Evil

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• You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

  Colin Powell

  Tragedy, Spirit, Never Forget

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• And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Daughter, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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

  Ronald Reagan

  School, History, Secret

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Intelligence Services, Imagination

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• Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

  Will Rogers

  Freedom, Practice, Liberty

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• That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

  Robert McNamara

  War, President, Lessons

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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Mean, Thinking

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Thoughts on parliamentary reform. Recent writers on reform. Bain's psychology. A few words on non-intervention. The contest in America. Austin on jurisprudence. Plato”, p.204

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

  George H. W. Bush

  Nuts, Political, Politics

  "Vice President George Bush today joked that Geraldine Ferraro's..." by Ira R. Allen, www.upi.com. August 22, 1984.

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Honesty, Faithful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Relationship, Peace, Money

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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• Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Communication, Political, Grace

  "asic Public Speaking". Book by Paul L. Soper, p. 12, 1963.

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• Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Years, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

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• They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Peace, Military, War

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

  Harry Browne

  Funny, Sarcastic, Integrity

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• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

  Learned Hand

  Money, Government, Law

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• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

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• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Food, Character, Epic

  In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

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• Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Birthday, Umpires

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms. It's time to welcome Him back, because whenever we've opened ourselves and trusted in Him, we've gained not only moral courage but intellectual strength.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Believe, Blessed

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• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Two, Potatoes

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