The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government. — Sarah Vowell 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
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. — Robert Walpole 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
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
What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original… — Alexander Hamilton 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
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else. — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
I'm going to say the New England Patriots fans [biggest winner of the year 2015]. I mean - bring it on. Bring… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I feel like I've had a strong relationship with Robert [Kraft] and his family since I was here in 1996 and I… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the… — John F. Kerry 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 live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me… — Doug Flutie 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
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
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
“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
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
Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. — Aaron Swartz 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
We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A. — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image