Patriotic Quotes - Page 27

• It hasn't taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they're back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.

  Boris Johnson

  Taken, Long, Projects

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". BBC One's debate at Wembley Arena, London, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• There is nothing patriotic about voting for Brexit.

  Ruth Davidson

  Voting

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

  Sarah Palin

  Government, Knows, Solutions

  Sarah Palin at Vice Presidential Debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen if we came out there's nothing patriotic about putting people's jobs at risk.

  Ruth Davidson

  Jobs, People, Risk

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, People, Honest

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

  Bernie Taupin

  Ignorance, Simple, Faults

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• It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Dream, War, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Bible, God, Country

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• I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, War, Holiday

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 114, 1963.

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• Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

  Art Linkletter

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

  Jesse Ventura

  Loyalty, Government, Should Have

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Heart, Destiny

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

  Shelley Winters

  Religious, Retirement, Thinking

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

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• It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Divorce, Self Worth

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.373, Wildside Press LLC

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  It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Independent, Responsibility

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• Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Justice, Political

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• I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration!"

  Hillary Clinton

  Encouragement, Tired, People

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the annual Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Day fund raising dinner in Connecticut, April 28, 2003.

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• However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

  Sarah Vowell

  Hate, War, Coffee

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• Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.

  David Brooks

  Two, Republican, Debate

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

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• To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

  Lionel Strachey

  Religious, Fear, Hate

  Lionel Strachey (1912). “The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations...”

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• To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Revolution, Borders

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.135, Best Books on

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• The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Community

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.235, Best Books on

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• Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

  Gene Weingarten

  Country, Years, Two Sides

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the head of the New York Fed say, "We want you to do this because we think it's in the best interest of the United States of America," you know, we're like the Japanese. We're a little patriotic that way. We said, "Yes, sir!"

  Jamie Dimon

  New York, Thinking, America

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Justice For All, Liberty, Who We Are

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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