#patriot

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#benefits #celebrating #curtain #distasteful #encouraging

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#compatriots #creative #creative act #felt #i

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#making #matter #may #must #our

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#dissent #form #highest #highest form

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#flourish #nation #patriots #strife #then

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#exists #form #his #language #only

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#concessions #emanated #established #forbearance #forever

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. ↗

— George Canning

#country #every #friend #his #own

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#against #earth #easy #extreme #forms

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#conducted #faith #her #life #makes