Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 153
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
Lord Acton
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.
Chris Murray
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.
William Kennedy
One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
Saul Bellow
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
Constantin Stanislavski
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons
Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.
Daniel Gilbert
We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.
Geraldine Ferraro
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.
Laura Sydell
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
William Ellery Channing
But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.
John Dos Passos
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.
George McGovern
