Patriotic Quotes - Page 31

• I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Politics, Excitement

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• A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, America, United States

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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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• Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

  Sheryl Crow

  Military, Real, Play

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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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• A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Emotion

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• Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Names

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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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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• There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Hate, Differences, Fundamentals

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Millions

  "Wolf Blitzer: Bachmann ‘McCarthy-Like’ In Attacking Huma Abedin" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

  America Ferrera

  Names, America, Grandfather

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

  William Kristol

  Country, Strong, Fighting

  "The Times Gives Kristol the Pink Slip" by Jacob Heilbrunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2009.

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• That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

  Joseph Warren

  Wise, Mean, Blessing

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• And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.

  Joseph Warren

  Law, Important, Venture

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• I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'

  Denis Fahey

  Daughter, Party, Years

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• The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Trying, Care, Environment

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• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, May, Definitions

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times (April 9, 1944). Quoted in: "Democracy Reborn", p. 259, 1944.

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• [...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.

  Howard Zinn

  Loyalty, School, Successful

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

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• When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

  Julia Child

  War, Would Be, Height

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Tragedy

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks on pardoning Nixon, September 8, 1974.

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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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