Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 61

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
 Samuel Adams
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
 Pericles
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
 Christian Nestell Bovee
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
 Charles de Gaulle
We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.
 Joe Arpaio
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
 Harry Emerson Fosdick
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
 Jim Harrison
I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.
 Rob Lowe
I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.
 Yoko Ono
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
 David Icke
The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.
 Lyn Nofziger
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
 Tom Stoppard
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
I never said, \'I want to be alone.\' I only said, \'I want to be let alone!\' There is all the difference.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
 Greta Garbo
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.
 Lois Gibbs