Famous Patriotic Quote

Famous Patriotic Quote

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
Samuel Johnson

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin

A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot. William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) US newspaper publisher, Recalled on his death 14 Aug 1951
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey (1927-1989) US author

Beer commercials are so patriotic: 'Made the American Way.' What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
Evelyn Waugh

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American political theorist, writer

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it
George Bernard Shaw

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal."
Thomas Jefferson

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal'".
Martin Luther King Jr.

"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
Abraham Lincoln

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

"He who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this giovernment cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
Abraham Lincoln, 1858

"Any truth is better than make-believe ... rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Henry David Thoreau

"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
George Washington's Farewell Address, September 17, 1796

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

"Character is doing the right thing when no one is watching"
J.C.Watts.

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."
Aristotle

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

He's been a wonderful husband and father, and those things are very important to him. I think for a man, he's been an exceptional good friend to a lot of other men. Not only in coaching, but in our church, and some of his friends from high school. I don't know anybody who has anything bad to say about Gary.Lois Alverson



Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes

Seasons change, friends move away, and life goes on from day to day. Flowers fade and streams go dry and many times we wonder why. Yet we can always be assured because God tells us in His Word, that unlike changes in the weather, love goes on and las.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong