Patriot Quotes
Patriot Quote of the day
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die old!
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.
It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.
A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
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.
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!
We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America - a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America - that values the service of every patriot.
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.
Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.