Patriotic Quotes - Page 37

• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Men

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

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• It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

  Russ Feingold

  President, Resolve, Overwhelming

  "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

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• It is no coincidence that the American hunter is the most patriotic of all our citizens. Who cares more for this land's beauties than he?

  Fred Bear

  Land, Who Cares, Hunters

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• Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Thinking, Names

  "Race Moves to Center Stage". www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2008.

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• No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

  Kelly Miller

  War, Glowing, America

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Self, Citizens

  "Partisan-in-chief Obama – crossing the line with America's federal workforce" By Tony Shaffer, www.foxnews.com. October 03, 2013.

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• I cannot tell you how proud watching that [Iraqi] war coverage makes me. I know a lot of people are saying that they think that it's, that you know what we're doing is imperialistic. I watch the way we handle ourselves over there and I've never felt more patriotic in my life.

  Dennis Miller

  War, Thinking, People

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• People don't start wars, governments do.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—

  Cassandra Clare

  Dragons, Honor, Tattooed

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Eye, Wind, Voice

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

  Langston Hughes

  Real, Opportunity, Air

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

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• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Food, Kids

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• You don’t sound very patriotic,” observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?” “Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—” “You’re in a charming temper, aren’t you, William?” interrupted Jem, though there was no edge to his voice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dragons, Voice, Honor

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Heart, Blood

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.

  James Madison

  Character, Blessing, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.

  Ernest Belfort Bax

  Men, People, Magic

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• Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, God, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1850). “Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848”, p.118, London, C. Gilpin

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• Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

  Emma Goldman

  Arrogance, Patriotism, Essentials

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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• The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Skills, Training

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Deterring Democracy”, p.363, Random House

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• Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

  Herbert Croly

  Enthusiasm, Monopoly, Good Faith

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

  John Wayne

  Flags, Wave, American Flag

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• The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

  Fisher Ames

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence”, p.45, Burt Franklin

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• You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Grandfather, Glad, Laborers

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.45, Vanderbilt University Press

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