True Patriot Quotes

#1. A man doesn't have to agree with his government to be a patriot, does he? It takes a true patriot to dissent, to say he loves his country more than he cares for his own place in the social order.

Cassandra Clare

#2. It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

Ron Paul

#3. It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.

George Orwell

#4. Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

Cindy Sheehan

#5. A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. When Texas seceded from the Union, the German preacher, Peter Moeling, wrote from Galveston: "I shall die a true patriot and a soldier of the Cross, the gun in hand and Christ within my heart.

Ross Phares

#7. No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

Dick Morris

#8. From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

Thomas Steinbeck

#9. A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Paul Craig Roberts

#10. As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Samuel Adams

#12. Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

Nikki Haley

#13. A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

Auliq Ice

#14. The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

Ron Paul

#15. The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#16. I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that.

Khloe Kardashian

#17. You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

Benny Hinn

#18. Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.

Elizabeth Peters

#19. That sounds about right for this group. You bleeding hearts are going to be the death of me, I just know it.

Julie Kagawa

#20. The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

Robert Walpole

#21. God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

Martin Luther

#22. Be genuine and authentic, so when a guy starts to catch feelings, it's with the real you and not someone you are pretending to be.

Sheri Gaskins

#23. All true patriots will meet in heaven.

Charlotte Corday

#24. For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

Samuel

#25. I M A Simple
Person Who Hides
A Thousand Feelings
Behind The Happiest
Smile.

Me

#26. A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country.

Edmund Burke

#27. True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

Eric Liu

#28. If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

H.G.Wells

#29. A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

Tupac Shakur

#30. Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.

Ezra Taft Benson

#31. wouldn't be convinced not matter what

Erin Hunter

#32. The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Sarah Vowell

#33. Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn't

Suzanne Collins

#34. 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.

Jon Voight