Top 1200 Most Patriotic Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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.

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

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'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.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country.

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

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

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

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

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

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

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

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

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.

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.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

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

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

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.

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

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

I`d like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

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

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.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

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

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.

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

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.

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

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.

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

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

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.

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

All I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

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

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?