When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry. — Ron Wyden
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment. — Peter Camejo
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended. — Harry Belafonte
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. — Thomas Campbell
One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). — Frank Gaffney
Patriotism isn’t just a feeling, it’s a commitment to act on behalf of your country. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. — George Bernard Shaw
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. — Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. — Tao Lin
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. — Calvin Coolidge
Short Patriot Act Quotes
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. — Michael Badnarik
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. — George Washington
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. — William Randolph
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. — Guy de Maupassant
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism. — G. Edward Griffin
No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights — Joe Biden
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. — Bertrand Russell
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley
He’s for real. If you look up the definition of patriotism in the dictionary, his picture is there. — Bill Miller
Patriot Act Image Quotes
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Usa Patriot Act Quotes
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. — L. Neil Smith
Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. — Roger Wicker
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. — Roger Wicker
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack. — Gideon Raff
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. — Neil Young
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. — Naomi Wolf
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Haile Selassie
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. — Robert Baden-Powell
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. — Plato
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus
There are seven days in the week and someday isn't one of them.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. — Alexander Hamilton
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. — Leo Buscaglia
To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky. — Thomas Sankara
Patriot Quotes
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. — Malcolm X
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
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
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. — Thomas Sankara
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. — George Washington
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin
Patriotic Quotes
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. — Ulysses S. Grant
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. — Aldous Huxley
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter. — George Washington
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. — John Adams
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. — Jacque Fresco
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry S. Truman
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master! — Thomas Jefferson
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. — Ulysses S. Grant
Patriotism Quotes
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism. — Julius Nyerere
Dream Big. Start small. Act now.
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. — John Wayne
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man. — Alexander Hamilton
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders. — Samuel Adams
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution — Frederick Douglass
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. — Andrew Jackson
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. — Isaac Asimov
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same. — Robert E. Lee
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams
Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11. — Barack Obama
Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism. — Jimmy Carter
To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation. — J. William Fulbright
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home. — Mike Pence
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
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. — Pete Stark
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again. — Jim Sensenbrenner
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged. — Rand Paul
Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit. — Nicholas Samstag
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. — Karl Rove
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. — Howard Berman
The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. — Chris Chocola
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us. — Robert Mueller
The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information. — John Ashcroft
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance. — Calvin Coolidge
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will. — George Washington
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
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. — John Ashcroft
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. — Robert Mueller
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States. — James Madison
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. — Jim Sensenbrenner
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. — Mike Pence
Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities. — Jim Gerlach
Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation. — Christine Pelosi
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. — Russ Feingold
In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this. — Rand Paul
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike....We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it. — Stephen Colbert
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. — Roger Wicker
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? — Ras Kass
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door. — Joe Bageant
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime. — Michael K. Simpson
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act. — Jim Gerlach
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. — Jo Bonner
Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. — Chris Chocola
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