Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America -- a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America -- that values the service of every patriot.
Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.
I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.
I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.
The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
Real patriots ask questions.
I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.