Patriotic Quotes - Page 8

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

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Country, Freedom

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Stars, Ocean, Blessed

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

  Robert Byrd

  Fighting, Race, Land

  "An Unlikely Friendship: President Obama and Senator Byrd" by Eve Zibel, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2010.

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• It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Rome

  Horace (1908). “Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... the Roman Poet Presented to Modern Readers”

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• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Land, America

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sympathy, Sacrifice

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.228, Xist Publishing

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• You can die for your country. I'll live for mine.

  Matthew Axelson

  Country, Mines, Dies

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• 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.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Men

  Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883

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• How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Thinking, Discipline

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Security without liberty is called prison.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Prison, Security

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• He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Wisdom, Fun

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• I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Marine

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no
  dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.

  Roger Casement

  Fate, Pride, Fighting

  Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

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• The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

  John Gardner

  Political, Democracy, Citizens

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• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  George Washington

  Military, War, 4th Of July

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• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Proud, Cold

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• It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

  George Washington

  Exercise, Rights, Government

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1792). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.93

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• For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

  Samuel Adams

  People, Ignorant, Liberty

  "Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814".

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• That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Government, People

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• These are the times that try men's souls.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Motivation

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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• I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

  Abebe Bikila

  Sports, Country, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments: Abebe Bikila's 1960 marathon victory - in pictures" by Steven Bloor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

  Teofilo Stevenson

  Love, Money, Eight

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