We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed… — Cassandra Clare 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
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“I’m only 33% patriotic, because I don’t bleed red, white, and blue. I only bleed red. But I pee white and my… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have suffered discrimination. We have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which… — Ernest Belfort Bax Copy Share Image
“I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?" "Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I'm very patriotic. So, anything to represent my country, I was always going to grab that opportunity with both hands. — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
“You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands… — Steve King Copy Share Image
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses… — Lionel Strachey Copy Share Image
“Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept; it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington Copy Share Image
While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image