Quotes of: Patriot Keyword

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

John Stuart Mill

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

Steve Buyer

There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.

Stephen Douglas

America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake di...

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

each year India produces thousands upon thousands of eighteen-year olds who have little to no instructed idea of the last sixty years of Indian history. They have no idea if or how those five-year plans worked. They have no idea if or how the Non-Ali...

The Sceptical Patriot: Exploring the Truths Behind the Zero and Other Indian Glories

A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. But there is an anti-patriot who honestly ang...

Orthodoxy

The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called America...

What I Saw in America

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

Democracy in America

It didn't get much more patriotic than sex in a Chevy on the Fourth of July. God bless America.

Flirting with Fire

Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

Orson F. Whitney

His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger

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

Robert Carlyle

I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.

K. Hari Kumar

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Martin Van Buren

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

Maureen Dowd

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.

Roger Wicker

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?

Mark Twain