Browsing Topic Best Patriotic Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don’t have a right to their own opinions.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

You can be a patriot and challenge the government without disrespecting the flag.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.