Patriot Quotes - Page 14

• I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Towels, Firsts, Steelers

  "National Book Festival: 'Mayflower'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 18, 2006.

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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America - a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America - that values the service of every patriot.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, America, Community

  Remarks by the President at the Human Rights Campaign's Annual National Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 1, 2011.

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• Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

  Bill Moyers

  Dream, Fighting, Blood

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• Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.

  John Lukacs

  Years, Community, Patriotism

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• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Jon Porter

  Talking, Law, People

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• In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

  James Salter

  Character, Pride, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Government, Blood

  Interview with David Sheff, www.davidsheff.com. December 1987.

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• I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

  Isaac Asimov

  New York, Diversity, Giving

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• For Americans, Poland has been a symbol of hope since the beginning of our nation. Polish heroes and American patriots fought side by side in our War of Independence and in many wars that followed. Our soldiers still serve together today in Afghanistan and Iraq, combatting the enemies of all civilization.For America's part, we have never given up on freedom and independence as the right and destiny of the Polish people, and we never, ever will.

  Donald Trump

  War, Hero, Destiny

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Playing Football

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• Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Senior, Brother, Growing Up

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• The Seahawks have only been around since 1976, so our fan base is relatively young. You talk about the Patriots, or the Celtics or, obviously, Red Sox and Bruins. Your grandfather's father was a fan of that team. People have lived there their whole lives.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Father, Team, People

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• When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.

  Mike Royko

  Horse, Beer, Years

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• Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

  Monte Irvin

  Baseball, Moving, America

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• It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Country, Hate, Duty

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.263, Faber & Faber

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• Obama found a lot of people that think just like he does, and he put them in the intelligence community. Can you imagine? When you think of the intelligence community, don't you think of super patriots, don't you think of people out there even risking their lives to defend and protect the Constitution and the people of this country and this country itself as founded? No. That's not the kind of people Obama put at the CIA.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'.

  Jon Stewart

  Goal, Doe, Zing

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• Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

  Emma Goldman

  Exercise, Men, Shoes

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

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• Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

  Gordon Allport

  Prejudice, Links, Study

  Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Fool

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.336

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• The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And it also becomes part of another important issue that relates to the FISA court and the rest of the debate. It almost becomes a secret law, like there are two Patriot Acts. The one you read on the laptop essentially leads you to believe that there's some connection to terror .

  Ron Wyden

  Believe, Gun, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Order, Tyrants

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• Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Hero, Agency, Guy

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• From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Real, Government

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