Patriotic Quotes - Page 20

• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• America is a tune. It must be sung together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, America

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Politics, Gettysburg

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

  Samuel Adams

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

  David McCullough

  Country, Patriotism, Revolution Founding Fathers

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Nov 12, 2012

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• I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Daughter, Country, War

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• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Government, Discipline

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• Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

  Leonard Cohen

  Baby, Children, War

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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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• The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hands, Class, Justice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

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• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

  Anatole France

  Military, War, People

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• I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Veterans Day, Fighting, Soldier

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.39, Macmillan

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• I love my country, not my government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Government, Usa

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Jan 17, 2011

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• What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Hate, Government, Differences

  "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Crush, Religious, Order

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fear, History, Effort

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

  Henry James

  Home, Thinking, Patriotism

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.86, 谷月社

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• We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Patriotism

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• There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Dream, 4th Of July, Men

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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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• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Two, Potatoes

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• One of the great attractions of patriotism

  Aldous Huxley

  Cheating, Bully, Patriotism

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Eyeless In Gaza”, p.185, Random House

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• It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Kindness, Pride

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

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• As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

  Criss Jami

  Selfish, Tragedy, Routine

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.106, Criss Jami

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