America Quote by Harry S. Truman

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your…

— John Bolton

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

— Samuel Richardson

“The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office…

— Václav Havel

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

— Samuel Johnson

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor

— Andrew Johnson

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

— Benjamin Whichcote

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

— Pearl S. Buck

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones,…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

— Hugo Black

Man is more than constitutions.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

— Ludwig von Mises