Patriotic

(601 votes)   Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Thomas Jefferson

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(246 votes)   The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Thomas Jefferson

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(73 votes)   You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

P.J O'Rourke

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(848 votes)   I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

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(490 votes)   Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ''patriotism'' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American Psychologist

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(472 votes)   seldom have so few done so much for so many

winston churchill

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(419 votes)   Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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(416 votes)   What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(413 votes)   Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Spiro T. Agnew
1918-1996, American Vice President

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(411 votes)   If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

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(375 votes)   You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(351 votes)   The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

James Earl Jones

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(327 votes)   A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(302 votes)   I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(290 votes)   Who saves his country violates no law.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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