#patriot

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#defenders #defense #during #faith #fighting

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#both #courage #i #includes #just

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. ↗

— Karl Rove

#bad #been #dawning #democrats #else

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#always #country #dying #killing #never

We need to revitalize the American spirit. People are always asking ‘What would the founding fathers do,’ but I have yet to witness a single séance. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #patriotism #funny

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? ↗

— Bill Maher

#better #country #critique #else #flaws

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #first #i #myself #patriot

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#decayed #degraded #feeling #moral #much

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#corruption #country #crooks #destroyed #duty