Patriotic Quotes · Page 13

“I am patriotic. When the Pledge of Allegiance is going on, I solemnly place my right hand over my genitals.”

— Jarod Kintz

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician…

— Harry S. Truman

I don't want [to work] people who agree with me. I want honest, spirited, hard-working, patriotic people who want to be part…

— Hillary Clinton

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Adam Hochschild

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on…

— George Bernard Shaw

You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

— Steve Stivers

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

— Dan Dailey

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American,…

— George Washington

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show…

— Shawn Amos

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag…

— Frank Gehry

The songs of 'Border' and 'Refugee' were from my heart. Everything that is patriotic comes from the heart. If these songs come…

— Anu Malik

Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed…

— Barack Obama

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and…

— Francis Ford Coppola

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his…

— Vicki Baum

I believe American corporations that have gotten so much from our country should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them…

— Hillary Clinton

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house,…

— Adam Driver

I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and…

— Jonah Goldberg

Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today…

— Roger Casement

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible…

— H. L. Mencken

Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected…

— Thurgood Marshall

If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that…

— Hasan Minhaj

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

— John McCain

“All the propagandist like FIFA, ICC, Olympics are hypnotizing you to be radical patriotic in the name of sports.”

— Anup Joshi

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal…

— James A. Garfield

There is nothing patriotic about hating your country or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.

— Bill Clinton

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

— Nan Goldin

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

— George Mason

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used…

— Rudy Giuliani

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

— Benjamin Franklin

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

— Waris Ahluwalia

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

— Henry Rollins

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

— Barack Obama

I'm a very patriotic England fan, actually. I always wore my heart on my sleeve.

— Harry Kane

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but…

— Bill Maher

In World War II movies, everybody is gung ho and patriotic. The Vietman War was somewhat different, to say the least.

— Ken Wahl