Citizens Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning has made…

— Harold B. Lee

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may…

— Thomas Jefferson

Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands.…

— William Lloyd Garrison

The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom....when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom which we…

— J. Reuben Clark

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good…

— Robert H. Jackson

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

— Emma Goldman

“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government…

— Njau Kihia

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

— Wendy Kaminer

“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty.…

— John F. Kennedy