'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
No matter our background, or income, or geography, we are all citizens of America. And no matter our color, or the blood,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Rex Tillerson is an incredible businessman and American patriot and somebody that I think has experience across the globe that… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch… — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. I'm… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government, and it has helped break up terror cells in the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I got a chiropractor to come along to the Patriot shoot, because they can actually stick you back together within 15 minutes.… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I will always consider myself a New England Patriot. So, if I can serve in the role of a coach, administrator on… — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the… — Brian Billick Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born! — Candace Wheeler Copy Share Image
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists -… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling… — Ernest Belfort Bax Copy Share Image
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men… — John Milton 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
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
It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have… — John Wayne 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
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
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