Patriotic Quotes

What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

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.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

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The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

It's not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it's the most patriotic thing we can do.

The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

It's too easy to do a patriotic-themed show to crawl into people's hearts and minds.

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.

We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

I don't want [to work] people who agree with me. I want honest, spirited, hard-working, patriotic people who want to be part of a team, the American team.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

There is no patriotic art.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

People don't start wars, governments do.

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.