Quotes of: Patriotic Keyword

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

Bill Vaughan

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Francis John McConnell

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Jonathan Mayhew

In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism!

Time

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Mike Wallace

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

Martha Plimpton

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.

Frank Serpico

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Isaac Rosenberg

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

Scott Peters

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Croly

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Alexander Hamilton

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele Commager

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Alexander Pope

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

David Hume