Patriot Quotes

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

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All true patriots will meet in heaven.

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

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.

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

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

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

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

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

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.