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Patriot Quotes

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Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
Patrick Pearse

Life is born from mortality; and from the tombs of heroic men and women arise flourishing nations.
Authors on Patriot Quotes: Robert Walpole Samuel Johnson Bill Maher Mark Twain Michael Badnarik Dick Morris Janusz Korwin-Mikke Zoe Weil Sarah Vowell Aaron Hernandez George Orwell Susan Rice Van Jones Mignon McLaughlin Jon Voight Nelson Mandela Alexander Pope Al Sharpton Jay Roach Nat Hentoff Reince Priebus Edward Coke George W. Bush Samuel Ted Strickland Howard Dean Jules Renard Marcus Luttrell Ron Paul Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira Christopher Titus Johannes Rau Jack Hunter
2.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
Thomas Jefferson

A genuine nationalist will protect his homeland from its leadership.
3.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Mark Twain

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Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.
Johannes Rau

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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
Aristotle

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When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.
Ron Wyden

7.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Robert Walpole

8.
Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.
Zoe Weil

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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
George W. Bush

10.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire

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From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
Gary Hamel

12.
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.
Russell Means

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All true patriots will meet in heaven.
Charlotte Corday

14.
I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.
John Wayne

15.
You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way.
Aaron Hernandez

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As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
Barack Obama

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Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Gore Vidal

18.
Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke

19.
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
Olusegun Obasanjo

20.
The house of every one is to him as his castle.
Edward Coke

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.
Mark Twain

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Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.
Samuel Johnson

23.
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
George Canning

24.
We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.
Marcus Luttrell

25.
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.
Nathaniel Philbrick

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You're not a patriot unless even when you lose, it's still your country.
Bill Maher

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In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.
August Bebel

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Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
Mignon McLaughlin

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I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.
Winona LaDuke

30.
It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
Lawrence Durrell

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

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Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
John Adams

33.
I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.
Christopher Titus

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The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
Sarah Vowell

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We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
George Orwell

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I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
Rand Paul

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A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
Billy Bragg

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It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.
Trevor Noah

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John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
Howard Dean

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I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
Robert Walpole

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

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For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.
Samuel

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It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.
Jerry Holkins

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It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
Samuel Johnson

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Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?
Benjamin Martin

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At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
Jules Renard

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The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.
Sr?a Trifkovic

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The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.
Michael Badnarik

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I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.
Jay Roach

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Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains?
Bill Maher