Patriot Quotes - Page 5

• Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

  Emma Goldman

  Lying, Men, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Struggle, Patriotic

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• There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Men, People

  "Teddy Roosevelt's Immigration Speech Holds True Today" by Barbara Wamboldt, www.thewhig.com. July 07, 2010.

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• When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

  Ron Wyden

  Government, People, Angry

  "Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency". www.rollingstone.com. August 15, 2013.

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• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Peace, Kindness

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

  John Dickinson

  4th Of July, Fall, Patriotic

  "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

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• The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Hero, Fighting

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.54, Dawson Bros.

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• I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Fire, Government

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• If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Patriotic, Men

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• Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  War, Men, United States

  Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 1861.

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• After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

  Jim Gerlach

  Today, Usa Patriot Act, Deliberation

  Jim Gerlach's Statement on the Reauthorization of the Patriot Act, July 21, 2005.

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• No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

  William Cowper

  Men, Political, Politics

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• John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

  Howard Dean

  Joseph Mccarthy, Descendants

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• Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

  Patrick Pearse

  Spring, Men, Graves

  "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 226), 1994.

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• The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

  Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira

  Wrestling, Mask, Showers

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• The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

  H. L. Mencken

  Military, War, Party

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.314, Knopf

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• No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

  Peter Camejo

  Mind, Faces, Usa Patriot Act

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• All true patriots will meet in heaven.

  Charlotte Corday

  Heaven, Patriotism

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• Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

  Seneca the Younger

  Hero, Ambition, Vanity

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• A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

  Billy Bragg

  Country, Who Cares, Happens

  Interview on CBC Radio One, November 17, 2006.

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• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Hippie, Patriotic

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

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• If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Islands, White

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• Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains?

  Bill Maher

  Want, Train

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• The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

  Mike Pence

  War, Home, Essentials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

  Gore Vidal

  Usurpers, Succeed, Divine

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 21, 2016

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