Patriotic Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Thinking, America, People

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Pride, Simple

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, War, Iraq

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.

  Michelle Obama

  America, Presidential, Patriotism

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

  Ron Paul

  Pennies, Monsters, Debt

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• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  Franklin Pierce

  Presidential, Political, Politics

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• The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

  James K. Polk

  Passion, Government, Office

  James K. Polk (2015). “The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency”, p.249, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Sublime, Contentment

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Law, Fit

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• Truth is the glue that holds government together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Truth, Honesty, Government

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

  John Hancock

  Glasses, Names, Liberty

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• The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotism, Embodiment, Flags

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.

  Ellen Key

  Children, Loss, Race

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• I've always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I've always been a proud person, I'm very patriotic.

  David Beckham

  Country, Games, Just Friends

  "David Beckham interview - Why I'm not ready to finish playing yet". Interview with Paul Vercammen, www.totalfootballmag.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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• The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

  Gerald R. Ford

  Drinking, Lunch, Three

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks to the National Restaurant Association, in Chicago, Illinois, May 28, 1978.

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• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Revenge, Past, Amnesty

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Long, Nightmare, Fellows

  Remarks upon taking oath of office, 9 Aug. 1974

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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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• You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

  Steve Stivers

  Needs, Return, Knows

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