Patriot Quotes

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

You're not a patriot unless even when you lose, it's still your country.

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?