Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us… — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I grew up being very patriotic. My parents really love this country. A big part of what they love is freedom of… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
As a very patriotic and passionate Scot, singing the anthem at a big football match means the world to me and I'm… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
“The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are generally the ones who speak more passionately of patriotic values. They are often the first to rise up to protest… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent,… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
It hasn't taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they're back to… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
