#patriot

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #because #him #his #i

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#being #british #country #definitely #english

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Addams

#affection #cannot #conception #embody #hope

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#after #behind #call #called #child

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#i #joined #never #patriotic #reasons

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

#beaten #heights #popularity #power #road

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#act #free #free trade #liberty #much

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#because #dollar #follow #interest #lead

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#breeds #each #feels #nation #nations

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past. ↗

— George Crook

#civilization #complete #country #dishonor #equal