Patriot Quotes · Page 8

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

— Aaron Swartz

National honor is national property of the highest value.

— James Monroe

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

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

— Bill Owens

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

— John Wayne

I am a patriot: I want to help my country and help it grow.

— Jamie Dimon

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

— Billy Bragg

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

— Charles Farrar Browne

The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security.

— Mike Honda

[Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's…

— Maureen Dowd

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England…

— Bill Belichick

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual…

— George Nethercutt

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of…

— Peter Berg

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

— Roger Wicker

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the…

— Heather Brooke

I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While…

— Robert Spencer

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles…

— Daniel Webster

And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and…

— Ronald Reagan

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but…

— Edward Snowden

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone…

— Steven Weber

It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about…

— Jonah Goldberg

I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My…

— Ernest Gellner

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their…

— Thomas Jefferson

We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases in the world and stopped Fort Dix from being attacked by six American radicalized…

— Chris Christie

The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely…

— Henry David Thoreau

I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless…

— Mikhail Bakunin

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think…

— James Salter

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

— Seneca the Younger

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

— Robert Walpole

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

— Ronald Reagan

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

— Didier Drogba

“He was a great man. But even a better patriot.”

— Anonymous

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

— Samuel Johnson

When I think about the Patriot Way, I think about a team.

— Devin McCourty