Quotes and Sayings about Riot
"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, American, Loyalty)
"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Patriotism, Hope, Affection, Interest, Nation)
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Lie, Country, Duty, Man)
"Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."
- Alcuin
(Related: God, People, Madness, Saying, Voice)
"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Riot)
"The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then."
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Riot, Sense, Speech)
"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized."
- Steve Allen
(Related: Patriotism)
"It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism."
- John Amery
(Related: Patriotism, Government, Decision, Opinion, Parliament, Right)
"I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Men, Women, Rights, Nothing)
"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
- John Ashcroft
(Related: Act, Information)
"I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots."
- Paddy Ashdown
"Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: Thought, Apologies, Choice, Now, Options)
"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty."
- Michael Badnarik
(Related: Act, Liberty, Trade)
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Duty)
"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
- Clara Barton
(Related: Father, Blood)
"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
(Related: Mother, People, Party, Russia)
"The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres."
- Bruno Bauer
(Related: Family, Nature, Patriotism, Devotion, Religious, Sight, Spirit)
"Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families."
- Evan Bayh
(Related: Patriotism, Financial, Being, Circumstances, Country, Military, Right)
"Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Act, Debate, Privacy, Public, Years)
"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Patriotism, Name)
"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Patriotism, War, Country, Existence, Nation, Needs, Vice)
"I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Time, Life, Character, Thinking)
"America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape."
- William Blum
(Related: Patriotism, Religion, America, Murder, State)
"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
- Henry Bolingbroke
(Related: Patriotism, Virtue)
"Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes."
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(Related: Patriotism, Religion)
"While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Work, Act, Americans, Debate, Nation, Security)
"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Patriotism, Want)
"It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are."
- Breyten Breytenbach
(Related: Mistake, Majority)
"I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred."
- Harold Brodkey
(Related: Funny, Peace, Time, Knowledge)
"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
- Joseph Brodsky
(Related: Patriotism, Attitude, Language, Writer)
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
- James Bryce
(Related: Patriotism, Country)
"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Spirit, Will)
"Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder."
- Richard Francis Burton
(Related: May, Support)
"It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle."
- Prescott Bush
(Related: Patriotism, Life, Belief, Courage, American, Battle, Will)
"The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: War, Gratitude, Afghanistan, America, Debt, Iraq, Now, Veterans)
"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
- George Byron
(Related: Country, Vote)
"Patriotism is the religion of hell."
- James Branch Cabell
(Related: Patriotism, Religion, Hell)
"I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution."
- Peter Camejo
(Related: Change, Act, Congress, Constitution, President, Senate)
"No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment."
- Peter Camejo
(Related: Act, Mind, Right)
"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
- Kim Campbell
(Related: People)
"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
- Thomas Campbell
(Related: Blood, Freedom)
"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."
- George Canning
(Related: Friend, Country, World)
"Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Patriotism, Nation, Nations)
"These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: History, Patriotism, Character, Country, Heroes, Honor, Nation, Terror)
"We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough."
- Jerome Cavanagh
(Related: Hope, Riot)
"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
- Edith Cavell
(Related: Patriotism, Bitterness, Hatred)
"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Mother, Country, Right, Saying, Wrong)
"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: War, Mother, Son, Man, Saying)
"The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Intelligence, Act, Law, Nation, Terrorism)
"Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Government, Ability, Act, Information, Planning, Understanding)
"It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages."
- Bainbridge Colby
(Related: Men, Burden, Danger, Difficulty, Duty, Responsibility, Result, Support)
"These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea."
- Schuyler Colfax
(Related: Patriotism, Idea, Martyrs)
"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."
- Henry Steele Commager
(Related: Men, Patriotism, Authority, Criticism, Will)
"Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers."
- Joe Conason
(Related: Love, America, Draft, Liberals, Support)
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Patriotism, America, Country)
"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Successful, Possibility, Country)
"Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Love, Work, Patriotism, Americans, Country, Dumb, Enemy, Hate, Liberals, Question)
"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Hate, Hurt, Police, Riot, Speech, University)
"There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse."
- Bob Cousy
"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."
- William Cowper
(Related: Man)
"The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Patriotism, American, Loyalty, Promise, Tradition)
"Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Faith, Enthusiasm, Americans)
"The average American is nothing if not patriotic."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: American, Nothing)
"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."
- George Crook
(Related: Civilization, Country, Force, Laws, Past, Question, Shame, Will)
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Land, Loyalty, Man, Mountains, Rivers)
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: Patriotism, Injustice, Land)
"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."
- Rebecca H. Davis
(Related: Patriotism, War, People, Courage, Honor, Nation)
"You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it."
- Rebecca H. Davis
"John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy."
- Howard Dean
"1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Patriotism, War, Thought, People, American, Beginning, First, Heroism, Iraq, Troops)
"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Patriotism, Society, Motive)
"The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?"
- Ronnie James Dio
(Related: Life, Music, Patriotism, Time, Actions, Greed, Stupidity)
"There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."
- Stephen Douglas
(Related: War, Man, Question, states, United)
"Never was patriot yet, but was a fool."
- John Dryden
(Related: Fool)
"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Importance, Paris, Riot)
"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Patriotism, Behavior)
"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Beauty, Patriotism, Nothing, Rules)
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."
- Barbara Ehrenreich
(Related: Patriotism, Dissent, Duty, Hell, Rebellion)
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Patriotism, Hate, Heroism, Name, Nonsense, Violence)
"I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew."
- David R. Ellis
(Related: Games, Months)
"I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that."
- Richard Farnsworth
(Related: Horses, Parting, Sea)
"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
- Francois Fenelon
(Related: Country, Respect, Will)
"Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today."
- Mike Ferguson
(Related: Patriotism, War, Sacrifice, Courage, Today)
"U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive."
- Robert Fisk
(Related: Government, Policy, Being, Question)
"Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly."
- Robert M. La Follette
(Related: War, Opposition, Party, Right, Silence)
"I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel."
- George Galloway
(Related: Patriotism, English, Letters, Man)
"There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people."
- George Galloway
(Related: Patriotism, People, Flags)
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
- Charles de Gaulle
(Related: Love, Patriotism, People, First, Hate, Nationalism)
"After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Act, Today)
"Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Act, Law, Tools)
"We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: People, Play, Police, Publicity, Years)
"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
- Todd Gitlin
(Related: Life, Patriotism, Nationalism)
"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."
- Todd Gitlin
(Related: Patriotism, Want)
"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."
- Todd Gitlin
(Related: Patriotism, Americans, Name)
"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Time, Idea, Beginning, Law)
"Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them were thrown out for riotous behaviour, I got a bit ticked off; wouldn't you?"
- Alan Gorrie
"If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Change, Patriotism, Direction, Vote)
"You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available."
- Harold H. Greene
(Related: Legal, Extremes, Poor, Riot)
"I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night."
- Harold H. Greene
(Related: Court, Day, Night, Washington, Windows)
"I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it."
- Robert Greenwald
(Related: Change, Crisis, Democracy)
"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself."
- Val Guest
(Related: Time)
"The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act."
- Lawrence Halprin
(Related: War, Act)
"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."
- Gary Hart
(Related: Office, President)
"137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: America, Day, Democracy, Freedom, Honor, Spirit, Years)
"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970."
- Tom Hayden
(Related: History, Civil rights, Historians)
"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."
- Tom Hayden
(Related: Jobs, Riot, Years, Zone)
"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."
- William Randolph Hearst
(Related: Job, Will)
"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"
- O. Henry
(Related: Art, Business, Family, Love, Patriotism, Religion, Man, Nothing, Shadows, Words)
"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me."
- James Herriot
(Related: Love, Holidays, Job, Man, Writing)
"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."
- James Herriot
(Related: March, Spring, Wind)
"I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box."
- James Herriot
"I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside."
- James Herriot
(Related: People, Animals)
"For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents."
- James Herriot
(Related: Funny, Wife, Years)
"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."
- James Herriot
(Related: People, Hope, Animals, Care, Needs, Will)
"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
- James Herriot
(Related: Fact, Writing)
"I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love."
- James Herriot
(Related: Love, Cats, Faces)
"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."
- James Herriot
(Related: Cats, Comfort)
"They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live."
- James Herriot
(Related: Now, Quiet)
"There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring."
- James Herriot
(Related: Help, Old)
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."
- James Herriot
(Related: Love, Gratitude, Soul, Animals, Being, Loyalty)
"If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw."
- James Herriot
(Related: Care)
"I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us."
- James Herriot
(Related: Trust, People, Animals, Children)
"I will write another book if I feel like it."
- James Herriot
(Related: Will)
"I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago."
- James Herriot
(Related: Memory, Years)
"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans."
- Eric Hobsbawm
(Related: Patriotism, American, Americans, Right, Wrong)
"My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet."
- Samuel Hoffenstein
(Related: Diet, Soul)
"The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security."
- Mike Honda
(Related: Act, National security)
"In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Patriotism, Time, Fight, Speech)
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
- David Hume
(Related: Patriotism, Power, Popularity, Road, Tyranny)
"The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler."
- Harriot K. Hunt
"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Patriotism, Feeling, Nation, Wishes)
"I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community."
- Chrissie Hynde
(Related: Patriotism, Community, Sense)
"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, America, Feeling)
"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Feeling)
"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Patriotism, Nationalism)
"I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden."
- Clifford Irving
(Related: Committee, Riot, Trouble)
"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Men, Society, Community, Riot)
"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Power, Affection, Motives, Public, Support, Taxation)
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
- Robert Jackson
(Related: Patriotism, Will)
"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth."
- Thomas J. Jackson
(Related: Country, Earth, Fighting, Rights)
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Patriotism, War)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Time, Blood, Liberty)
"The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Countries, English, France)
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Patriotism)
"If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common."
- Tommy Lee Jones
(Related: Movies, Patriotism, Successful, Americans, Military, Nothing)
"When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!"
- David Starr Jordan
(Related: Religion, Moon, Strangers)
"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."
- Janos Kadar
(Related: Respect)
"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Experience, Power, Act, Difference, Hate, State)
"I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service."
- John F. Kerry
(Related: Patriotism, War, Courage, Military, Protest, Service, Struggle, Vietnam)
"The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness."
- Francis Scott Key
(Related: God, Darkness, Direction, Promise, Service, Will, Word)
"A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Language, Riot)
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Language, Riot)
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Defeat, Questions, Sense)
"Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Patriotism, Belief, Purpose, Fire, Living)
"But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Patriotism, Opportunity, Bravery, Day, Past, Present, Veterans)
"The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters."
- Rush Limbaugh
"If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then."
- John Linder
(Related: War, Fathers, Founding, Now, states, Today, United)
"The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world."
- John Linder
(Related: American, Freedom, Liberty, Today, Tradition, World)
"You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon."
- David Lloyd
(Related: Peace, Men, Road)
"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."
- Audre Lorde
(Related: Learning, Riot)
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Government, Fear, Grave, State)
"If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason."
- James Madison
(Related: Truth, Majority, Reason)
"To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that."
- Bill Maher
(Related: Truth, People, Friend, Country, Friends, Will)
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
- Bill Maher
(Related: Country, Flaws)
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."
- Malcolm X
(Related: Patriotism, Blind, Reality, Wrong)
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it."
- Malcom X
(Related: Patriotism, Blind, Reality, Wrong)
"But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Patriotism, Approval, Measure, Unity)
"When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right."
- Steve Marriott
(Related: Manager, Act, Confidence, First, Numbers, Right)
"I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again."
- Steve Marriott
(Related: Thought, Now)
"People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about."
- Steve Marriott
(Related: People, Idea, Feet)
"We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages."
- Steve Marriott
(Related: Time, America, First, Now)
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
- Andrew Marvell
(Related: Time)
"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
- Guy de Maupassant
(Related: Patriotism, Religion)
"There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Patriotism, Disguise, Popularity)
"It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Folly, Man, Misery, Nations, Riot)
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Intellectuals, Soccer)
"We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us."
- Francis John McConnell
(Related: Patriotism)
"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain."
- George McGovern
(Related: Love, Patriotism, Policy, Acceptance, Blind, Country, Deep)
"If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Marriage, Abortion, Americans, Country, Gay, Research)
"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that."
- Aaron McGruder
(Related: Flags, News, Want)
"Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry."
- David O. McKay
(Related: Soul)
"2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!"
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Boston, First, World)
"To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood."
- Myriam Miedzian
(Related: War, Action, Doubt, Military)
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: War, Feeling, Nothing, State, Ugly, Worth)
"No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: War, America, American, Feeling, Nation)
"It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me."
- Ho Chi Minh
(Related: Patriotism, Communism)
"In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism."
- George J. Mitchell
(Related: Patriotism, Power, Religion, Society, History, Policy, Criticism, states, Support, United)
"What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic."
- George J. Mitchell
(Related: Government, Sense, states, United, Will)
"Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person."
- Charles Edward Montague
(Related: Patriotism, May)
"Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country."
- Ricardo Montalban
(Related: Love, Patriotism, Politics, Impression, Brothers, Country, Honor, Party, Sisters)
"These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties."
- Jean Moulin
(Related: Old)
"People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies."
- Robert Mueller
(Related: People, Act, Talk)
"Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us."
- Robert Mueller
(Related: Intelligence, Act, Information)
"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
- George Jean Nathan
(Related: Patriotism, Principles)
"Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door."
- Adela Florence Nicolson
"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Patriotism, People, Americans, Freedom, Garden, Idealism, Passion)
"The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Lyn Nofziger
(Related: Time, Blood, Liberty, Needs)
"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
- Barack Obama
(Related: War, People, America, Iraq, Stars, states, United)
"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future."
- Barack Obama
(Related: War, Women, Appreciation, Future, United)
"They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut."
- Bill O'Reilly
"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."
- John Boyd Orr
(Related: Wealth, Revolution, Workers)
"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
- George Orwell
(Related: Patriotism, Class, Hatred)
"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
- James Otis
(Related: Life, Public)
"Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001."
- Butch Otter
(Related: Act, Congress, Constitution, Healthcare, Legislation, Senate, Understanding, Words)
"I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security."
- Bill Owens
(Related: Act, Balance, Freedom, Right, Security)
"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Kiss, Mother, Duty)
"The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home."
- Mike Pence
(Related: Home, Success, War, Act, Terror)
"In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists."
- Mike Pence
(Related: Ability, Act, Law, Years)
"Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason."
- William Penn
(Related: Man, Mob, Passion, Reason, Riot)
"The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously."
- Georges Pompidou
"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Ambition, Knave)
"The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security."
- Jon Porter
(Related: Legal, Work, Intelligence, People, Act, American, Defense, Law, National security, Talking)
"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."
- Chaim Potok
(Related: Beauty, Home, Patriotism, People, Culture, Man, World)
"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."
- Dawn Powell
(Related: Running)
"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."
- Dan Quayle
(Related: Blame, Killing)
"A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot."
- William Randolph
(Related: Job, Will)
"True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going."
- Robert Reich
(Related: Patriotism, America, Burden)
"My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand."
- Frederick Reines
(Related: Life, Music, American, Childhood, Country, July, Memories)
"While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot."
- Frank Rich
(Related: Imagination, Fear, Americans, Nothing, Play, Riot)
"I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Patriotism, Sacrifice)
"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."
- Elihu Root
(Related: War, Peace, People, Enthusiasm, Resentment, Wrongs)
"When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot."
- Stephen Root
(Related: Funny, Now, Riot)
"I never joined the army for patriotic reasons."
- Isaac Rosenberg
(Related: Army)
"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."
- Karl Rove
(Related: Act, Democrats)
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Country, Dying, Killing, Talk)
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Patriotism)
"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."
- Jessica Savitch
(Related: Honor)
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Patriotism, Learning)
"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Authority, Rights)
"For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself."
- Jim Sensenbrenner
(Related: Act, Law, Legislation, Opponents)
"In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again."
- Jim Sensenbrenner
(Related: Act, Day, Fate)
"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
- Yahoo Serious
(Related: Business, Government, Leadership, Time, People, Riot, Running)
"Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime."
- Frank Serpico
(Related: Act, Crime, Free speech, President, Today)
"I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word."
- Al Sharpton
(Related: Sense, Word)
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Patriotism, Quiet, Race, World)
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Patriotism, Conviction, Country)
"That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
- Charlie Sheen
(Related: American, President, Public, Right, Wrong)
"In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots."
- Norodom Sihamoni
(Related: Life, Future, Will)
"I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering."
- Norodom Sihamoni
(Related: Happiness, Suffering, Will)
"The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Intelligence, Technology, Ability, Act, Crime, Drugs, Information, Nation, Terrorism, Tools)
"We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping."
- L. Neil Smith
(Related: Government, Act, Freedom, Security)
"Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority."
- Vic Snyder
(Related: History, Patriotism, Being, Hurt, Majority)
"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic."
- George Soros
(Related: Society, People, Being, First, May, Open, Wrong)
"I'm a patriot of the heart."
- Sylvester Stallone
(Related: Heart)
"Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights."
- Pete Stark
(Related: Government, Power, Abuse, Act, American, Rights, Will)
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
- Adlai E. Stevenson
(Related: Patriotism, Dedication, Emotion)
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
- Adlai Stevenson
(Related: Patriotism, Dedication, Emotion)
"I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together."
- Parker Stevenson
(Related: Patriotism, War, People, Question, Today, World, World war)
"Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it."
- Payne Stewart
(Related: People, American, Country, Disgrace)
"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."
- Janet Suzman
(Related: Patriotism, Being, Nationality, Self, Sense)
"He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work."
- Norman Tebbit
(Related: Work, Riot)
"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."
- Howard Thurman
(Related: Patriotism, War, Hatred)
"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."
- Leo Tolstoy
(Related: Power, Patriotism, State, Suffering, Wrong)
"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."
- Leon Trotsky
(Related: People, Being, Myth, Reality)
"At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well."
- Robert Trout
(Related: American, July, Midnight, Will)
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Government, Patriotism, Time, Country)
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
- Mark Twain
"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
- Lao Tzu
(Related: Nation)
"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."
- Bill Vaughan
"There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Being)
"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."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Patriotism, Knowledge, Belief, Actions, Choice, Feeling, Loyalty, Result)
"All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Government, Acting, Choice, Loyalty, Respect, Will)
"I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Patriotism, Heart, Knowledge, Belief, Feeling, Loyalty, Result)
"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
- Voltaire
(Related: Friend)
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
- Voltaire
(Related: Enemy, Mankind, Rest)
"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Peace, Power, Time, War, Interest, May)
"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised."
- Robert Walpole
(Related: Patriotism, Gentlemen, Word)
"It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot."
- Robert Walpole
"I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts."
- Robert Walpole
"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
(Related: Patriotism, Idea, Spring)
"Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers."
- Zack Wamp
(Related: Policy, Thoughts, Americans, May, Soldiers, Support, Veterans, Vietnam)
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
- George Washington
(Related: Patriotism)
"I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot."
- George Weah
(Related: Peace, Eyes, Faces, Name, Reason, Riot, Want)
"Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information."
- Roger Wicker
(Related: Legal, Intelligence, Act, Defense, Information, Law, Sharing)
"One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act."
- Roger Wicker
(Related: Business, Act, Effort, First, Will)
"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."
- Roger Wicker
(Related: Act, Facts, Rights)
"Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act."
- Roger Wicker
(Related: Home, Action, Law)
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Patriotism, Virtue)
"The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow."
- Kit Williams
"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."
- Kit Williams
(Related: Direction)
"The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years."
- Kit Williams
(Related: Home, Pleasure, Years)
"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form."
- Kit Williams
(Related: Work, Artists, Parting)
"I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot."
- Kit Williams
(Related: People, Years)
"As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot."
- Kit Williams
(Related: Feet)
"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
- Shelley Winters
(Related: Experience, American, Body, Nudity, Religious)
"There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism."
- Robert Charles Winthrop
(Related: Patriotism)
"In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia."
- John Sergeant Wise
(Related: Government, Patriotism, History)
"My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism."
- John Woo
(Related: Patriotism, Family, Friendship, Honor)
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Age, Work, Genius, Cleanliness, Extravagance, Hard work, Riot)
"This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story."
- Neil Young
(Related: Act, Civil rights, Country, Terrorism)
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
- Howard Zinn
(Related: Patriotism, Dissent)