Patriotic Quotes - Page 6

• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

  John Adams

  Freedom, History, Generations

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.173, UPNE

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• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Peace, Hurt

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

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• Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Patriotism, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, Magic, Population

  "Oprah Talks to Madeleine Albright". www.oprah.com. December 2001.

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• We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Home

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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• We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

  James Mattis

  Faith, Military, Writing

  "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Country, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dirty, Naughty, Doors

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255, 2007.

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Freedom, Humor

  "Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858

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• We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

  Richard M. Nixon

  4th Of July, Government, America

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Democracies Have, People

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• We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Presidential, Weapons

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• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

  John Quincy Adams

  Honesty, 4th Of July, Believe

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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• When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Enlightening, Strife

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Brother

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Shoot first and ask questions not at all

  Richard Marcinko

  Firsts, Asks

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• Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Country, Literature

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• To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, People, Choices

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.547, Library of America

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• I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Writing, Government

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

  H. G. Wells

  Proud, England, Incessantly

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.5303, Delphi Classics

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