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Quotes About Patriotic

There is a proud and patriotic tradition on the centre left of supporting our armed forces; being tough on crime as well as its causes; that expects people to pay their fair share of taxes as the price for a civilised society and that spends money wisely.
~ Wes Streeting
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
~ Jesse Ventura
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
~ Timothy Noah
Mr. Trump's election has caused a tectonic shift in advertising - just as it has in media more generally - and themes that might have once seemed innocuous or patriotic have suddenly become politically charged, controversial, and divisive.
~ James B. Stewart
introduced school songs, patriotic holidays, and nationalistic themes in textbooks, all of which made an ancient love of Iran into a modern nationalism.
~ Roy Mottahedeh
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
~ Henry A. Wallace
I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.
~ Michael Moore
big spending is anti-American when directed to social programs but patriotic if it is funneled to the beneficiaries/defenders of the corporate state.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
Paul believed American greatness and the ghosts of that greatness surrounded him. But who could publicly express such a belief and not be ridiculed as a patriotic fool? Paul believed in his fellow Americans, in their extraordinary decency, in their awesome ability to transcend religion, race, and class, but what leftist could state such things and ever hope to get laid by any other lefty?
~ Sherman Alexie
It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's list.
~ Matt Shea
When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I grew up in a Navy family.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, "because that's the only way to motivate expenditure on them - such as buying traps or guns. It's the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
The vote for the Constituent Assembly showed that if a determined leader such as Kerensky or Kornilov decided to rally patriotic feeling across the country, that feeling could turn against the German invader as well as Lenin's Bolshevik accomplices
~ Arthur Herman
It's an amazing feeling Whenever you do well for India, it is a great feeling.
~ Yuzvendra Chahal
People who avoid taxes, like corporations that move to Bermuda, are not paying their dues to their country. It is patriotic to be a taxpayer. It is traitorous to desert our country and not pay your dues.
~ George Lakoff
I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
~ Nadia Comaneci
When a country goes to war, men can no longer operate free and open laboratories. The Government would like to know what you are doing. Businesses became corporations, the individual thinker became unpatriotic.
~ Samantha Hunt
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
~ John Stuart Mill
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
~ Leon Trotsky
Most of our fans are the hardworking people of the world. They are the people who have made this country great.
~ Johnny Van Zant
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable." The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.
~ George Orwell
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
~ Francis Ford Coppola