Best 329 quotes in «patriotic quotes» category

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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.

It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Most CEOs are patriotic and most CEOs can see the problems in front of them, and they want to do something about it. We don't always agree about the ways and means, but the objective? We're totally together.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

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.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.