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Quotes About Patriot

Earlier that year, at the hundredth anniversary of his Harvard club, a member was talking about the spirit of Harvard College and saying how glad he was that the school had produced neither "a Joseph McCarthy or an Alger Hiss." On hearing that coupling, Kennedy jumped from his chair. "How dare you compare the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!" and left the room. As for his father, the very thought
~ Chris Matthews
I am a patriot—of the 14th Ward Brooklyn, where I was raised. The rest of the United States doesn't exist for me, except as idea, or history, or literature.
~ Henry Miller
One if by land, and two if by sea;And I on the opposite shore will be,Ready to ride and spread the alarmThrough every Middlesex village and farm.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Phil Schneider was a true patriot who became deeply concerned about what was really going on in the shadows of government. He handed in his extreme high security pass and started to speak the truth publicly. What he revealed is more than enough to demand immediate full disclosure. Seven months after giving one of the lectures quoted here he was found strangled. The "official" cause of death was "suicide." The NWO deals harshly with whistleblowers
~ Unknown
African American history – so much of it is truly unknown today. For example, few know of James Armistead – a black patriot and spy who helped make possible the 1781 Yorktown victory during the American Revolution that established America as an independent nation. 1
~ David Barton
The Robespierre women (as one tended to think of them now) were all on display. Madame looked actively, rather intimidatingly benevolent; it was her aim in life to find a Jacobin who was hungry, then to go into the kitchen and make extravagant efforts, and say, "I have fed a patriot!".
~ Hilary Mantel
This may interest you. A letter from my dear cousin Fouquier-Tinville." Camille cast an eye over his relative's best handwriting. "Squirm, flattery, abasement, squirm, dearest sweetest Camille, squirm squirm squirm … 'the election of the Patriot Ministers … I know them all by reputation, but I am not so happy as to be known by them—
~ Hilary Mantel
The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.
~ Stephen Hunter
You bet I'm a patriot!' I exclaimed. 'It's because I'm a patriot, that I can't bear our country.
~ Unknown
Senator Cleland was a passionate patriot with a big heart for our veterans, and he always put the people of Georgia first.
~ Raphael Warnock
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
~ Voltaire
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
~ Voltaire
I'm an everyday American.
~ Tomi Lahren
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
~ Gabrielle Giffords
There was more in those eyes than any common triumph. They had been hooded like a bird of prey, and now they flamed with a hawk's pride. A white fanatic heat burned in them, and I realized for the first time the terrible thing I had been up against. This man was more than a spy; in his foul way he had been a patriot.
~ John Buchan
Patrick was a Scottish patriot: pro-French and anti-English, but also an opportunist who flirted with England
~ John Guy
James Madison was 25 when he signed the Declaration of Independence.
~ Madison Cawthorn
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
~ Mark Twain
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
~ Mark Twain
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.
~ Voltaire
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."22
~ Michael Shermer
For every patriot fighting for a free Korea, or for any unlucky Korean bastard fighting on behalf of Japan, there were ten thousand compatriots on the ground and elsewhere who were just trying to eat. In the end, your belly was your emperor.
~ Min Jin Lee
By then Mercy, too, had evolved from the decorous wife of an affluent patriot into a reporter for those removed from the theater of war.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.
~ Oliver Goldsmith