Patriotic Quotes - Page 35

• Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Enemy, Liberty

  "War and Conflict Quotations" eds. Michael & Jean Thomsett, McFarland, (p. 105), 1997.

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• diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Country, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.47, 谷月社

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Country, Usa, America

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• Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

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

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• Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Fighting, Men

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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  John Dryden

  Patriotism, Fool, Patriot

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 968

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Peace, War, Hell Raising

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts... the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.

  Edward S. Herman

  War, Struggle, Effort

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• I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

  Scott Ritter

  Patriotism, Doe, Flags

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• No one is patriotic about taxes.

  George Orwell

  Patriotism, Taxes

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

  John Wayne

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotism

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• Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

  John Gunther

  Country, 4th Of July, Usa

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• America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in the tinniest way, with so much flag waving? You'd really think we were some poor little republic, and that if one person lost his religion for one hour, the whole thing would crumble. America is the real religion in this country.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Powerful, Real

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• In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Government, Practice, Indulge In

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• He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  4th Of July, Men, Patriotism

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• He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, 4th Of July, Army

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• People who make use of all their senses in trying times are no less patriotic than those whose restraint is lost, whose senses are dimmed and whose brains are washed. This is also the time for the patriot to say: Enough.

  Gideon Levy

  People, Brain, Trying

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• Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

  Stephen Colbert

  Exercise, Long, Waiting

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2012

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• Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Thinking, Opposites, America

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• It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Country, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Judging, Fearless

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• Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

  George Washington

  Liberty, World, Earth

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.212

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• I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, America, President

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• Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

  Doug Casey

  Integrity, Government, Organization

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• To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Believe, Political, Mind

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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