Top 1200 Great Patriotic Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

It is no coincidence that the American hunter is the most patriotic of all our citizens. Who cares more for this land's beauties than he?

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.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can unintentionally expose a nation's weaknesses to the world.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

As a very patriotic and passionate Scot, singing the anthem at a big football match means the world to me and I'm so lucky and so honoured that I get asked to do this.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

Music in our schools is considered to be an extra-curricular activity in which you teach your students a few patriotic songs and bhajans that children are not interested in.

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

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.

The RBI governor post is very high in the Warrant of Precedence and requires a patriotic and unconditional commitment to our nation.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.

Scratch below the surface, and you will find I am a patriotic little thing, desperately proud to be part of this island nation.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

Getting a chance to see good, decent, patriotic people who just want to have self-determination is something for which I will be grateful for the rest of my life.

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

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.

The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.