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Patriots don't let their nation default. -- Gary Ackerman
I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots. -- Tom Brady
We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots. -- Marcus Luttrell
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. -- Bertrand Russell
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar. -- Randy Moss
I think the Patriots actually live by the saying, 'If you're not cheating, you're not trying.' -- LaDainian Tomlinson
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a Terrible Towel. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.' -- Nathaniel Philbrick
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization. -- Randy Moss
[Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists. -- Dennis Miller
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought. -- Dorothea Dix
Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week. -- Norman Chad
Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat. -- David Letterman
Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team. -- Bill Belichick
Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? -- Sam Worthington
If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins. -- Brian Billick
I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me. -- Zach Braff
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series! -- Thomas Menino
There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love. -- Peter Berg
In the year of our Lord 1314. Patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom. -- William Wallace
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna. -- Bill Parcells
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas. -- Rick Riordan
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A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow. -- Jimmy Fallon
On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked. -- Ellis Hobbs
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I was really inspired by the way people responded, and I wanted to tell that story [ 'Patriots Day']. It's never been more difficult or complicated for me to make a movie. It's about my home, my people, my community. -- Mark Wahlberg
When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field. -- William Perry
The Seahawks have only been around since 1976, so our fan base is relatively young. You talk about the Patriots, or the Celtics or, obviously, Red Sox and Bruins. Your grandfather's father was a fan of that team. People have lived there their whole lives. -- Matt Hasselbeck
I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime. -- Peter Uihlein
The British are coming, the British are coming! Mr. President! We need the National Guard! We need as many men as you can spare because we are killing the Patriots! So call the dogs off! Send the National Guard, please! They need emergency help! Please! Help! -- Shannon Sharpe
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen. -- Edward Rutherfurd
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986. -- Steve Sabol
That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now. -- Sarah Palin
It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. -- Bill Belichick
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. -- Laozi
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. -- Robert Walpole
Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots. -- Scott Peters
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? -- Lord Byron
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots. -- Herman Cain
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! -- Robert Walpole
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
As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future. -- Barack Obama
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then. -- John Linder
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. -- Zach Wamp
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past. -- George Crook
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. -- Rachel Nichols
I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told. -- Kirk Cameron
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I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore. -- Doug Flutie
Real patriots ask questions. -- Carl Sagan
All true patriots will meet in heaven. -- Charlotte Corday
For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous. -- Samuel
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. -- Charles Farrar Browne
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. -- Laozi
In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. -- August Bebel
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. -- Gore Vidal
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors." -- Gore Vidal
We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots. -- Van Jones
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? -- Seneca the Younger
Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains? -- Bill Maher
We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy. -- Susan Rice
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots. -- Gordon Allport
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits -- H. L. Mencken
Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. -- Robert A. Heinlein
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. -- Zoe Weil
American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. -- Mike Huckabee
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community. -- Eric Liu
I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders. -- Daniel L Dreisbach
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. -- Monte Irvin
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. -- Elbridge Gerry
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who think they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries. -- Andy Rooney
It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's list. -- Matt Shea
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors. -- Stephen A. Douglas
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. -- George H. W. Bush
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 must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors ..." -- Seth Grahame Smith
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots. -- James Salter
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world. -- John Linder
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed. -- George Nethercutt
These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties. -- Jean Moulin
Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor. -- George H. W. Bush
As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America. -- Chuck Norris
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out! -- Christopher Titus
A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order. -- Bo Gritz
True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty. -- Eric Liu
We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives. -- Barack Obama
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling. -- C. L. R. James
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. -- John Milton
The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally. -- Chuck Baldwin
To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country. -- Ezra Taft Benson
People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical. -- Julia Child

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