Quotes About Patriot

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

Sorry, but when anyone self-applies the label of "patriot" I gag a little.

Me, personally. I do not know a soul who perished that day of 9/11. But it did then, does now, and I imagine it always will bring out the Patriot in me.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,By all their country's wishes bless'd!

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

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

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

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.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

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The time is always now to declare your freedom!"..."The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who's both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!

I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.

A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country.

A man full of warm speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Every thing else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

David Beckham is a patriot, and I am sure he will help in any way he can. Beckham needs to be part of any future plans to remould the England set-up. Beckham and players like him need to be integrated into the set-up in the same way that the Germans take on board former players from Beckenbauer to Rummenigge.

The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm.