Patriotic Quotes - Page 31

• Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

  John Adams

  Strength, Peace, Gun

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• The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Rights, Insightful, Mind

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.

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• This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

  Milton Mayer

  Real, Government, People

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

  Narendra Modi

  India, Politics, Excitement

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• All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Boundaries, Genuine

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Demand, Loyal, Adherence

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• I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

  Barbara Boxer

  America, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

  Source: progressive.org

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• The press can't write the kind of things they write, which are lies.The stories are fabrications and false. And the only thing I say is hopefully, hopefully, our patriotic movement will overcome this terrible deception.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Writing, Deception

  Source: time.com

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• Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

  Henry Wriston

  Life, Risk, Enemy

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• You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Love, President, Kind

  "Rudy Giuliani: Obama doesn't love America" By Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2015.

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• The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Lying, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.109, tredition

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• We are not the sum of our possessions.

  George H. W. Bush

  Prized Possessions, Possession

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.

  Joseph Warren

  Country, Powerful, America

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• I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Looks, Literature

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.293, Princeton University Press

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

  Gerald R. Ford

  People, Smarter

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• I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Prayer, President, Ballots

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Squares, People, Quality

  Time Magazine, January 28, 1974.

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• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Freedom, Philosophical

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

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• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

  Frederick Douglass

  Reflection, Moral Growth, Appreciate

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.565, Chicago Review Press

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit in which we might take it, the spirit in which we might spend it, is the leaven that might leaven the whole lump. Let us be patriotic; let us love the government under which we live.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Government, Church, Might

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