Top 396 Patriot Quotes & Sayings

A terrorist for one man could be a patriot for another.

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And it also becomes part of another important issue that relates to the FISA court and the rest of the debate. It almost becomes a secret law, like there are two Patriot Acts. The one you read on the laptop essentially leads you to believe that there's some connection to terror .

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Sherrod Brown, in the House, was one of 66 members of the House to vote against the Patriot Act, and he continues to vote against the Patriot Act, to deny our law enforcement the tools they need to go against terror.

General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.

You're not a patriot unless even when you lose, it's still your country.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half those charged have been convicted. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have used the Patriot Act to break up terror cells in New York and Oregon and Virginia and in Florida. We've prosecuted terrorist operatives and supporters. These efforts have not always made the headlines but they've made communities safer. The Patriot Act has accomplished exactly what it was designed to do.

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?

The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government, and it has helped break up terror cells in the United States of America and the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act. The Patriot Act.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Let me be clear: It's not that I'm not a patriot because I want to keep flag-burning legal, it's that I want to keep flag-burning legal because I am a patriot.

Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

My father was a patriot.

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

All Patriot fans despise Goodell.

I'm not sure I'm the prototypical Patriot.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

When I did the anthem, I did it with the understanding in my heart and mind that I did it because I'm a patriot. I was trying to be a grateful patriot. I was expressing my feelings for America when I did the anthem my way instead of just singing it with an orchestra.

Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

I love being a Patriot, and we'll leave it at that.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.