Government Quote by Thomas Clifford Mann

“I’m a patriot with every fiber of my being. A patriot does what is best for his country, not what is best for its…

— James Patterson

“True patriotism is doing something for your country.”

— Bill Maher

“We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

“every American is governed only by the principle of personal responsibility and that his or her most important freedom is the absolute freedom to…

— Susan Wittig Albert

“In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism!”

— Senator Mitchell

“Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and…

— Orson Scott Card

“patriotism involves serving your own country.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.”

— Gina Barreca

“We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.”

— Ronald Reagan

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a…

— George McGovern

“The national government belongs to the whole American people,”

— Charles A. Beard

“A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”

— Timothy Snyder