Quotes About Patriot

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

The denial of the popular will, Jefferson said privately, "opens upon us an abyss at which every sincere patriot must shudder."15

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

I'm a patriot of the heart.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

I think the Patriot Way definitely makes its way into the Hogan household.

I'm a patriot... Like my late father who came here and served his country as a member of the U.S. Army.

I am a patriot: I want to help my country and help it grow.

I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A.

My father was a patriot.

If a rogue nation were to attack the U.K. physically, I would be a patriot, yes; I would try to defend the U.K.

So much of my development as a football player and as a man has been here in New England, and it's an honor to hopefully be able to finish my career here and be a Patriot for life.

In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.

General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.

I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together.

Let me be clear: It's not that I'm not a patriot because I want to keep flag-burning legal, it's that I want to keep flag-burning legal because I am a patriot.

It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

It is when the rich and well-educated and highly-privileged classes neglect their duties, when they neglect to study the interests, and conciliate the affections, and instruct the opinions, and champion the rights of the people, that the latter become discontented and turbulent, and fall into the hands of demagogues: the demagogue always steps in, where the patriot is wanting.

Like the patriot camp followers, American women who cast their lot with the British army were primarily refugees with no other means of support.

And worst of all, what if lower-class whites rebelled with the rest? That would present the ultimate challenge to the authority of the slaveholders. At least in Maryland, where poor loyalists rose in opposition to the patriot elite, this seemed a real possibility.

Yet patriot masters apparently felt the need to fabricate such arguments, if only to relieve their own consciences. Understandably, they preferred to envision themselves as purveyors of freedom, the British as engineers of slavery. But it wasn't true, and the slaves undoubtedly knew this.