Patriotic Quotes - Page 15

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  Gary Numan

  Attitude, People, Earth

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• The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Religious, Law, Political

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• Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Kindness, Unity

  "Obama Weekly Address: President Calls On Americans To Rekindle 9/11 Unity". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.

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

  Will Rogers

  Freedom, Practice, Liberty

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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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• You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

  Herman Melville

  Blood, Usa, World

  Herman Melville (1963). “The Works of Herman Melville”

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• In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, 4th Of July

  Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa

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• Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Passion, Parenting

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  If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

  Samuel Adams

  Love, Peace, Freedom

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Country, Peace, War

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• In time of war the first casualty is truth.

  Boake Carter

  Military, War, Firsts

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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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• To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Conservative, Great Conservative

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• The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

  Liu Junning

  Rights, Way, Helping

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• If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, War, World

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• It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.

  Sherman Skolnick

  Mistake, Hero, Rights

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• Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

  Roger Babson

  Religious, Integrity, Intelligent

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