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
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
“You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?" "Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
The great tradition of America is one where people can worship the way they want to worship. And if they choose not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“Standing behind” a politician just because you voted for him or her does not make you patriotic, or loyal, or even smart—what… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
I am exceptionally patriotic - I've been brought up that way - so I love representing my country and somehow, I've just… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I'm just truly offended when I hear people call themselves patriots whose definition is trying to destroy democracy. What's patriotic about trying… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon was my right-hand man for, like, seven years. He's a hammer. And when you're a hammer, everything looks like a… — Brock Pierce 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
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
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
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
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
“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
When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this… — Maya Soetoro-Ng 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
If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler.… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
