370 Quotes About Patriotic

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

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

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.