Quotes About Usa Patriotism

#1. There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.

Cory Bernardi

#2. I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.

Shepard Fairey

#3. We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.

Lesley Gore

#4. That's the thing with you people. You think you could love someone one second and hate them the next. Well, you can't.

Diyar Harraz

#5. Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.

Marjane Satrapi

#6. Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism.

Dave Barry

#7. My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Herbert Hoover

#8. Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Tom Peters

#9. I wouldn't be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

Sol Luckman

#10. I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

Martin Gore

#11. The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and Utopian dream, who do the persecuting and make the wars.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Michelle Obama

#13. Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.

Jimmy Carter

#14. The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.

N. T. Wright

#15. Become a documentarian of what you do.

Austin Kleon

#16. Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

Erykah Badu

#17. We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another.

M. Russell Ballard

#18. She licked her lips, and I ached to kiss her mouth. I wanted to lick it, nip it, suck on it; I wanted to own it. I wanted to give her a kiss she's never fucking forget.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#19. The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

John Milton

#20. A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome

#21. If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Geraldine Ferraro