Patriotic Quotes - Page 30

• Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.

  Nan Goldin

  Pain, Compassion, People

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Feel Good, Buttons

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Tough Questions, Ordinary

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities. But there are still too many powerful interests fighting to protect their own profits and privileges at the expense of everyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Powerful, Fighting

  Source: time.com

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• I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Moving, Independence

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• We are not wholly patriotic when we are working with all our heart for America merely; we are truly patriotic only when we are working also that America may take her place worthily and helpfully in the world of nations . . . Interdependence is the keynote of the relations of nations as it is the keynote of the relations of individuals within nations.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Heart, America, World

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• I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.

  Charles Rangel

  Mother, Brother, Receiving

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• Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves.

  Jon Stewart

  Names, Trying, Dresses

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• There is no patriotic art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  John Adams

  Thinking, People, Judging

  "The Life of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Henry S. Randall, p. 587, 1857.

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• The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they're the best intelligence gatherers in the world. They're dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president.

  Adam Schiff

  Jobs, Good Relationship, Community

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

  John Adams

  Religious, Real, War

  Letter to Hezekiah Niles, 13 Feb. 1818

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• the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

  Vicki Baum

  Loyalty, Giving Up, Food

  Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”

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• Most CEOs are patriotic and most CEOs can see the problems in front of them, and they want to do something about it. We don't always agree about the ways and means, but the objective? We're totally together.

  Jamie Dimon

  Mean, Together, Problem

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Real, Teaching, Men

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• In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.

  Gilbert Seldes

  Art, Men, Differences

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

  William Plomer

  Patriotism, Lasts, Scoundrels

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• I believe American corporations that have gotten so much from our country should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them are, but too many aren't. It's wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. And I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Wall, Believe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

  Josiah Royce

  Men, Essence, Individuality

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  People, Progress, Desire

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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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• I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Great Leadership, Radio

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  Way, Internet, Free Speech

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• ... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  War, Parent, Lost Everything

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.6, University of Virginia Press

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• National chauvinism is a very tough nut to crack, since a vast propaganda network is in place to keep the workers whipped up into a patriotic frenzy. Maybe this will change, but I doubt it unless it is addressed.

  Michael Yates

  Nuts, Doubt, Cracks

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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