Patriotic Quotes - Page 16

• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Winning

  "American Politics and the Party System". Book by Hugh A. Bone, p. 482, 1949.

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Light, Judging

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

  Justin Raimondo

  Peace, War, People

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  There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Innocent Person

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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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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• I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Christian, Men, Giving

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• Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, God, Religious

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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• The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

  George Mason

  Law, Earth, Authority

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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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• 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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• All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

  Grover Cleveland

  Teaching, Godly, Presidential

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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• My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Heart, Democracy

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• In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Men, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1903). “Essays and Letters /by Leo Tolstoy ; Translated by Aylmer Maude”

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• Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Omnipotence, Losing, Lost

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• If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Strong, Cheer

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]

  Thurgood Marshall

  Justice, Feelings, Age

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• Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

  George Washington

  War, Men, Issues

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.312

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• I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Mistake, Thinking

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• The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Mean, Government

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.112

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• Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Children, School, Thinking

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• While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome for people who care about the common good but are alienated by the all too frequent use of patriotism and patriotic symbols to stifle debate, tarnish the images of rival candidates, or arouse popular support for aggressive military policies.

  Stephen Nathanson

  Military, Thoughtful, People

  Stephen Nathanson (1993). “Patriotism, Morality, and Peace”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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