Patriotic Quotes Page 2

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

The right of revolution is an inherent one.

When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;

nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

No, I make no pretension to patriotism.

So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

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.

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.

The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.