“ It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ”
- Timothy Dwight- Copy
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“ Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides. ”
- Jack Handey- Copy
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“ How soon we forget history...Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different! ”
- Paul Hogan- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. ”
- Shelley Winters- Copy
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“ Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. ”
- Phil McGraw- Copy
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“ Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. ”
- Noah Webster- Copy
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“ Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American. ”
- A. F. Shaw- Copy
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“ I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up. ”
- Hillary Clinton- Copy
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“ We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays. ”
- Kim Campbell- Copy
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“ Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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“ A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
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“ You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
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“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”
- Stephen Decatur- Copy
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“ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ”
- Henry Steele Commager- Copy
- 840
“ Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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