Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 79
You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.
Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.
Diana L. Eck
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
Theodore Parker
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.
Shashi Tharoor
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.
Esther Perel
So far as a person thinks; they are free.
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
