Patriotic

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(61 votes)   A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

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(328 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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(81 votes)   A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis
1824-1892, American Journalist

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(50 votes)   A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Richard Henry Lee

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(45 votes)   Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.

Noah Webster

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(60 votes)   Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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(46 votes)   Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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(62 votes)   for the people by the people

hancock

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(83 votes)   Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.

Patrick Henry

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(50 votes)   He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(67 votes)   He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

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(49 votes)   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.

Albert Einstein

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(54 votes)   How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton
1862-1937, American Author

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(98 votes)   How soon we forget history...Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

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