#patriot

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. ↗

— Mark Twain

#about #holler #hollering #knowing #loudest

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#cruel #founded #greater #more #power

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#during #even #guise #hatred #masquerade

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. ↗

— Voltaire

#dead #friend #great #humanitarian #loyal

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #despise #disdain #efforts #i

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#best #country #even #fair #fox

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#duly #gentlemen #great #great deal #patriotism

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#britain #calm #cliffs #coast #home

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#good-and-evil #patriotism #change

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of those who threaten it. ↗

— United States Department of the Navy

#liberty #life #patriotism #life