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• I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

  Zach Braff

  Team, Thinking, Should Have

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• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

  Lord Byron

  Country, Hunting, Literature

  'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

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• We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.

  John O. Brennan

  Believe, Intelligence Gathering, People

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

  James Otis

  Hero, Citizens, Sentiments

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• I'm a patriot of the heart.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Heart

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• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Pete Stark

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

  Jesse Ventura

  Loyalty, Choices, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Sep 23, 2014

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

  Voltaire

  Death, Loyal, Humanitarian

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• 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

  Country, People, Foxes

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• After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

  Naomi Wolf

  September 11, Littles, October

  "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2007.

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• This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

  Neil Young

  Country, Rights, Years

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• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, War, Patriotic

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

  Randy Moss

  Organization, Special, Afar

  “Verbatim: Randy Moss” by Kevin Seifert, www.espn.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Doe, Flags

  “Eats Roadkill, Speaks Danish” by Amy Wallace, www.esquire.com. February 28, 2006.

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• I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.

  Kirk Cameron

  Moving, Inspiration, Hero

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• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Peace, War

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

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• For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

  George Clooney

  Country, Government, Definitions

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

  Francis Scott Key

  Acknowledge Him, Darkness, Promise

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• Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Doe, Done

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• I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

  Nelson Mandela

  Firsts

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• 2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Years, Great Year

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• I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

  Daniel Webster

  Hands, Forever, Unions

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• the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Differences, Political, Rebel

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• Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Rights, Blood, Liberty

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.96, Penguin

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