Patriotic Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I can never consent to being dictated to.

  John Tyler

  Consent, I Can

  Said during a Cabinet meeting, 1841.

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• To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Patriotism, Geography

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.192, MIT Press

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• I think Americans are very patriotic.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking

  "Cable Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up on personal and professional failures". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2012.

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• The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, White, People

  Speech at the Church of the Puritans, New York, N.Y., May 1863

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• We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Respect, Ethics

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.17

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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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• My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Independent, Society

  Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

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• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

  Terry Pratchett

  Killing, Discworld, Foreigners

  "Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, Book 31)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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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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• I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

  Roger Ebert

  Family Values, Reasonable, Values

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• America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Sacrifice, America

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• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, Liberty

  "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.

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• Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.

  Joe Biden

  Class, People, Noble

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• It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

  James Madison

  Men, Law, People

  The Federalist no. 62 (1788).

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

  James Madison

  Blood, Europe, Forever

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• Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

  Rafael Cruz

  Religious, Pro Life, Conservative

  "Rafael Cruz, Father Of Sen. Ted Cruz, Offers Advice On GOP Latino Outreach". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

  John Adams

  Passion, Law, Political

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams”

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• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Freedom, Equality

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

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• And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

  Taylor Branch

  Country, Past, Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India . . . My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Ill Will, Humanity

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• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

  James Madison

  Nature, Angel, Reflection

  1788 The Federalist, Jan.

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• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

  James Madison

  Power, Presidential, Abuse

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