I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the… — Peter Camejo Copy Share Image
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I was in a film called 'The Patriot.' I spent every second I could on the set watching… — Gregory Smith Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
“These men of the special forces have had other optinos in their lives, other paths, easier paths they could have taken. But… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
I will continue to be critical of the system. Every honest patriot continues to fight against it. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
If a rogue nation were to attack the U.K. physically, I would be a patriot, yes; I would try to defend the… — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack]… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I mean, I think everyone at this level has a chip on their shoulder. Everyone's got a story. Everyone has had to… — Julian Edelman Copy Share Image
Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
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