Best Patriotic Thoughts
641 Patriotic quotes by 287 unique authors
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them…
— Benjamin Rush
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The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by…
— Benjamin Rush
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by…
— Benjamin Rush
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and…
— Benjamin Rush
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
— Benjamin Rush
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to…
— Benjamin Rush
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
— Thomas Sowell
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
— Thomas Sowell
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
— Eric Hoffer
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Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,…
— Vaclav Havel
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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
— Colin Powell
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When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge…
— Rudy Giuliani
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human…
— Tony Blair
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died…
— George W. Bush
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The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the…
— Rudy Giuliani
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Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit…
— Barack Obama
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A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.
— James Madison
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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to…
— Andrew Jackson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals…
— Herbert Hoover
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And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and…
— Ronald Reagan
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