Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

Only Americans can hurt America.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

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.

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.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.