Patriot Quotes

I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.

This is 2003, 2004. And then I started - after the Patriot Act, I would always get my financial packages in the mail and they would just be opened. And it was like, what is going on here?

The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains?

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Real patriots ask questions.

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to size the pompous praters and propagandists on the left.

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

I think the generosity of President Trump's spirit, recognizing that in the patriot's heart, there's no room for prejudice is part of who this president is.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

I think Rex Tillerson is an incredible businessman and American patriot and somebody that I think has experience across the globe that very few people have.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism.

I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.

We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.

I'm a patriot of the heart.