Patriot Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, People, And Love

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

  George Orwell

  War, Fighting, Soldier

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

  Robert David Steele

  Country, Evil, Republic

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• Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
  That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Hip Hop, Liberty

  FaceBook post by Ras Kass from May 03, 2011

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• There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Presidential, Rooms

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 12 Oct. 1915

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• For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . .

  Zachary Taylor

  Memories, Long, Presidential

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Children, Lying

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots, on the other hand, see that taking morality seriously requires that our commitment to our country be conditional in two ways. First, the actions or policies of a government must be worthy of support or, at least, must not be serious violations of morality. When nations behave immorally, patriots need not support them.

  Stephen Nathanson

  Country, Commitment, Government

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• He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, May, Revolution

  Thomas M. Curley, Samuel Johnson (1998). “Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson”, p.125, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

  Dick Morris

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• I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Pain, Writing

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1816). “Lettres de Lady Marie Wortley Montagu, 'ecrites Pendant Ses Voyages en Europe, en Asie Et en Afrique”, p.322

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• Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we are controlled, the best ever evolved by man, so far as we are able to judge. The Lord has strengthened the arms of the patriots who have defended us against the assaults of all those who have come up against us, and delivered us until today, from those who would have torn us asunder. Against all opposition, I sometimes think almost against ourselves, the Lord has brought us to our present condition, until this nation, like a city set on a hill, has become the light of the world.

  Anthony W. Ivins

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

  Eric Liu

  Community, Degrees, Cooperation

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.61, Sasquatch Books

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• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Believe, Self

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

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• By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

  John Ashcroft

  Wall, Law, Community

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• The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

  George W. Bush

  Law, America, Enforcement

  "Supreme Court Nominee Visits President and Lawmakers; President Bush Speaks in Baltimore About Renewal of Patriot Act, Supreme Court Nomination". "CNN Live Today", edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.

  Tim Lee

  Morning, America, Wake Up

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

  Zach Braff

  Team, Thinking, Should Have

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• I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

  Ernest Gellner

  Song, Book, Writing

  "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.

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• Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."

  Clark Gable

  War, Believe, Mean

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• A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.

  Karl Hess

  Faith, Men, Land

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• Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

  Howard Berman

  Years, Three, Privacy

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