#patriot

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #patriot




It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.


Eric Hobsbawm


#american #because #group #itself #like

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.


Thomas E. Mann


#approval #became #measure #national #national unity

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.


Charles Edward Montague


#clean #cut #different #different times #ends

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.


William Perry


#bowl #checking #down #field #flies

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.


Alexander Pope


#destroy #knave #make #makes #patriot

In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.


Gideon Raff


#act #after #america #attack #bin

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.


Scott Ritter


#attack #come #defend #destroy #family

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.


John Sergeant Wise


#federal government #formation #government #her #history

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.


Theodore Roosevelt


#environment #morals #nationalism #patriotism #politics

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age


Jawaharlal Nehru


#age