The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Being called up to the national team isn't a competition of who's more patriotic. — Gerard Pique Copy Share Image
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“We were all patriotic, but I can’t even conceive of what else we would’ve been, because our entire experience was domestic, interior,… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a thousand times,… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It’s hard to believe how sick of war we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity… — Keith B. McCutcheon Copy Share Image
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts. — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tide is turning and with each ebbing flow, justice returns to our shores, 2017.” — Joaquin R. Larriba Copy Share Image
All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
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… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
