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Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution. -- Sarah Palin
All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies. -- Mario Bunge
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. -- S. I. Hayakawa
Patriotic?â? Will looked smug. â??Iâ??ll tell you whatâ??s patriotic,â? he said. â??In honor of my birthplace, Iâ??ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on myâ?? -- Cassandra Clare
Patriotic'? Dear, dear me! Scarlett covered her mouth in mock astonishmentI didn't know that was 'patriotism.' I believe what you intended has ruder names, though no well-bred Georgia lady would admit to knowing them. -- Donald McCaig
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music. -- Bernie Taupin
The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we wanted it, this is not the time to do it; it would raise more contradictions in the Patriotic Front. -- Robert Mugabe
The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires. -- Joe Conason
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. -- Joe Conason
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. -- Moshe Dayan
Where liberty is, there is my country. -- Benjamin Franklin
The best road to progress is freedom's road. -- John F. Kennedy
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. -- Bertrand Russell
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. -- George Washington
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. -- Nathan Hale
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. -- William Faulkner
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. -- Herbert Hoover
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. -- Albert Einstein
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -- Abraham Lincoln
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- John Quincy Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adams
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! -- Thomas Jefferson
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. -- Douglas MacArthur
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
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. -- Abraham Lincoln
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice. -- John Adams
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John F. Kennedy
[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty. -- Howard Zinn
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. -- Ronald Reagan
I think Americans are very patriotic. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. -- Leon Trotsky
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. -- George McGovern
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. -- Vladimir Putin
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. -- Dave Barry
I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that's commendable. -- Ronda Rousey
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? -- Bill Maher
I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country. -- Andy Serkis
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. -- Robert Jackson
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place. -- Uma Thurman
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. -- Douglas MacArthur
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. -- Francis Ford Coppola
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses. -- Chris Kyle
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
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. -- Andrew Jackson
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. -- Frederick Reines
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well. -- Robert Trout
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. -- Elihu Root
It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic! -- David Beckham
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. -- Payne Stewart
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. -- Phil McGraw
Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority. -- James E. Faust
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. -- Mark Cuban
In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen. -- Brad Thor
There is no patriotic art. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one is patriotic about taxes. -- George Orwell
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. -- Art Linkletter
I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again. -- David Burge
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. -- Isaac Rosenberg
The average American is nothing if not patriotic. -- Herbert Croly
Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops -- Toby Keith
There is nothing patriotic about voting for Brexit. -- Ruth Davidson
Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again. -- Ronald Reagan
There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans. -- Wolf Blitzer
Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese. -- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. -- Ambrose Bierce
What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow. -- Lucius Beebe
Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume. -- Brian Aldiss
You can't get any more patriotic than dying for the country. -- Cenk Uygur
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. -- Thomas Sankara
We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic. -- Justin Raimondo
The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th. -- Claire Danes
We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays. -- Kim Campbell
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. -- Herbert Croly
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. -- Terry Pratchett
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic. -- Russ Feingold
I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans. -- Rachel Stevens
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. -- Alfred Adler
Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America. -- Thomas Bangalter
I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged. -- Rand Paul
I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won. -- Narendra Modi
I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are. -- Barack Obama
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. -- Tom Hooper
Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. -- Abraham Lincoln
America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice. -- Henry Rollins
It's too easy to do a patriotic-themed show to crawl into people's hearts and minds. -- Gene Simmons
Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that. -- Joe Biden
Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military. -- Dick Mountjoy
All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism. -- Richard Aldington
I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values. -- Roger Ebert
The best-adjusted people are the "?psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference. -- Toni Morrison
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. -- David O. McKay
While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. -- Mark Cuban
The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic. -- Chris Matthews
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. -- Victor Hugo
You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return. -- Steve Stivers
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic. -- Scott Ritter
The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral. -- David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more. -- Nan Goldin
I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am. -- Blake Anderson
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. -- Jeannette Rankin
Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves. -- Jon Stewart
The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president. -- Bill Maher
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. -- William Shakespeare
I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place. -- Michael Moore
It's not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it's the most patriotic thing we can do. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag. -- Winona LaDuke
I am patriotic. When the Pledge of Allegiance is going on, I solemnly place my right hand over my genitals. -- Jarod Kintz
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have. -- Gary Numan
A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts. -- Irving Berlin

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