Patriotic Quotes - Page 23

• Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

  Thomas Sankara

  Political, Soldier, Criminals

  Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press

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• Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.

  Linda Colley

  Religious, Political, Catholic

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• The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

  Joe Conason

  New York, Cities, House

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• The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Country, Attitude, Home

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• Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Art, Nice

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• My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Jobs, Believe

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• I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.

  David Burge

  Waiting, Politics, Dissent

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• I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

  Winona LaDuke

  Land, People, Flags

  "Living on Earth: Helping the Prez, Greening the Rez". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.organicconsumers.org. January 16, 2009.

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• When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

  Emma Goldman

  Lying, Brotherhood, Path

  "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

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• We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

  Kim Campbell

  People, Given, Display

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• I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Political, President, United States

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• We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Moving, People, Mountain

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• While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

  Mark Cuban

  People, Might, Pay

  "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

  Tom Hooper

  Identity, Cinema, Bases

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Portuguese, Can Not

  "Political ideology of the state Salazar" by Jorge Campinos, Portugalia Editora (p. 22), 1975.

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• Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

  John Hancock

  Practice, People, Enemy

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• Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Issues, Safety, Conservative

  Theodore Roosevelt (1958). “Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings”

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• It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.

  George Galloway

  Opposites, Soldier, Way

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• I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.

  Andy Rooney

  Country, Mean, Trying

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• The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, War, Views

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• Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Country, Judging, Principles

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• We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Jail, Patriotism

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

  Brian Aldiss

  Relax, Drink, Enjoy

  "Greybeard". Chapter 4. Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

  Richard Aldington

  Children, Abuse, Teach

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• The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.

  Saul Alinsky

  Father, Hero, Mean

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.34, Vintage

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