#patriotic

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 never joined the army for patriotic reasons. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#i #joined #never #patriotic #reasons

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#fans #football #grew #house #i

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#american way #burn #country #disgrace #east

We fell in love like the Fourth of July. But there was nothing red, white, and blue about it, because we fell in love in England, despite the fact that the colors on their flag are also red, white, and blue.
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— Jarod Kintz

#patriotic #patriotism #love

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#patriotic #speech #inspirational

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#enthusiasm #faith #good #good faith #monopoly

The average American is nothing if not patriotic. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american #average #average american #nothing #patriotic

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#always #between #difference #experience #foreign