Patriotic Quotes - Page 28

• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, People

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

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• America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

  Max Lerner

  4th Of July, Ideas, America

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• You can't get any more patriotic than dying for the country.

  Cenk Uygur

  Country, Dying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, Groups, Shots

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1057, Best Books on

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

  Aberjhani

  Justice, Humanity, Done

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• We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4th Of July, Opportunity, Race

  "The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

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

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• Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.

  John Guare

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

  Nathan Hale

  4th Of July, Independence, Arms

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• I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Children, Military

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

  Andy Serkis

  Country, People, Different

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. Kanuary 27, 2003.

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• The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Tyrants, People, Patriotism

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268

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• I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged. 

  Rand Paul

  Patriot, Filibuster, Patriot Act

  Rand Paul's Speech on the PATRIOT Act and Government Surveillance, www.c-span.org. May 20, 2015.

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• [I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was.

  Mary Antin

  Pyramids, Honor, One Day

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• Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mistake, Believe, Errors

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.353, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American" .

  Hasan Minhaj

  War, Optimistic, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't want [to work] people who agree with me. I want honest, spirited, hard-working, patriotic people who want to be part of a team, the American team.

  Hillary Clinton

  Team, Hard Work, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think America is changing. I think we are becoming a country that is not as welcoming to immigrants anymore. You have a president Donald Trump just last week who was retweeting anti-Muslim videos. That causes great harm to the Muslim-American community in this country who are law-abiding, faithful, yet patriotic people in this country. And it's sad that they are denigrated in that fashion.

  Jim Acosta

  Country, Fashion, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Political, Politics

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• Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Discovery, Long, Atheism

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “I Have Landed”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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• I can't think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It's getting to be election time and this gives everyone in Congress a chance to prove they are patriotic.

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Thinking, Giving, Decision

  "Pledge of Allegiance Judges Facing Demonstrators at Courthouse". www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2002.

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• I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Appreciate, Political, Willing

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.

  David McMurtrie Gregg

  Fighting, Men, Honor

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• It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Political

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