Patriotic Quotes - Page 33

• Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Representatives

  Remarks at New York convention on adoption of federal Constitution, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 27 June 1788.

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• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

  Doc Hastings

  Memorial Day, Military, Years

  FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013

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• The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Diversity

  Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)

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• One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cheating, Bully, Feelings

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Never take counsel of your fears.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Fear

  Quoted as "a favorite maxim" Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson in "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" by Mary Anna Jackson, Prentice Press/Courier Journal, Ch. XIII, (p. 264), 1895.

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• Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Opportunity, Problem

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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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• 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 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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• I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

  Jimmy Carter

  Anniversary, Swimming, Wife

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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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• 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! 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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• America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

  George W. Bush

  Ambition, Men, America

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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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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• 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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• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Spiritual, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "President, peacemaker, peanut farmer". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

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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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• 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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  America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

  Robert Carlyle

  Roots, Guy, Term

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