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

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

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

The honor of a nation is its life.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

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.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Freedom is not enough.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

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.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Sexism is real in this country.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

All movements go too far.