#patriot

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words! ↗

— Nathan Hale

#patriotism #inspirational

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#liberty #patriotism #men

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#liberty #patriot-act #politics #freedom

The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security. ↗

— Mike Honda

#beneficial #enhance #national #national security #our

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. ↗

— Clara Barton

#blood #father #patriot #veins #warm

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. ↗

— Prescott Bush

#american way #battle #belief #conduct #courage

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

#become #even #his #job #keep

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#approval #became #measure #national #national unity

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#clean #cut #different #different times #ends