Patriot Quotes - Page 25

• And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Men, Gun

  Henry Timrod, “Charleston”

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• We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

  George W. Bush

  Generations, Uniforms, Causes

  Fort Bragg Speech, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.

  Frances Trollope

  Country, Race, Arrogance

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.325

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• I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

  Brian J. White

  Sports, Football, Opportunity

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• Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.

  Steven Weber

  Cancer, Reality, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged. 

  Rand Paul

  Patriotic, Filibuster, Patriot Act

  Rand Paul's Speech on the PATRIOT Act and Government Surveillance, www.c-span.org. May 20, 2015.

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• Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

  Herman Melville

  God, Law, Joy

  'Moby Dick' (1851) ch. 1

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• I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

  William Howard Taft

  Real, Thinking, Patriotism

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• Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

  John F. Kerry

  Leadership, Country, Home

  "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Real patriots ask questions.

  Carl Sagan

  Real, Asks

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.538, Ballantine Books

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• Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half those charged have been convicted. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have used the Patriot Act to break up terror cells in New York and Oregon and Virginia and in Florida. We've prosecuted terrorist operatives and supporters. These efforts have not always made the headlines but they've made communities safer. The Patriot Act has accomplished exactly what it was designed to do.

  George W. Bush

  Effort, Community, September 11

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

  Herman Cain

  Black, President, Racist

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• While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

  George Washington

  Christian, Character, Voting

  Philander D. Chase, George Washington, Frank E. Grizzard, Edward G. Lengel, Dorothy Twohig (2006). “The Papers of George Washington: May-June 1778”, University of Virginia Press

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• As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

  Chuck Norris

  Together Again, America, Fool Me Once

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• There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

  Rand Paul

  Suffering, Liberty, Complacency

  FaceBook post by Senator Rand Paul from May 23, 2015

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