Patriotic Quotes - Page 19

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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 God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Government, Heaven Sent

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Girl, Strong, Integrity

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

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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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• My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

  Frederick Reines

  Country, Memories, 4th Of July

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• Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Brave, Gold

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

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• It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

  Elihu Root

  Real, War, Government

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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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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• 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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• I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

  Rachel Stevens

  Football, House, Fans

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Exercise, United States, Different

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

  Learned Hand

  Advice, Pay, May

  Helvering v. Gregory (1934)

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• Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

  William Howard Taft

  Taken, Character, Men

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• At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

  Robert Trout

  July, Usa, Chinese

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• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Responsibility, Men, Support

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• The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, War, Deceit

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• It's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prosecute war -- yet they insist that the war is for 'freedom'.

  Joseph Sobran

  War, Order, Facts

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• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, School, College

  William Z. Foster (1961). “Toward Soviet America: The book the communists tried to destroy!”

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• A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

  Chris Kyle

  Horse, Military, Cowboy

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

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• The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

  Stanley Milgram

  Soldier, Patriotism, Wish

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• America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

  Nathanael Greene

  Son, America, Justice

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• Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Loyalty, Country, Time

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• To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.

  Simon Schama

  Memories, Loss, Irrelevance

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Jobs, Freedom, Political

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

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