"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?"
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
Ronald Reagan on Patriotism"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
Albert Einstein on Patriotism"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."
John F. Kennedy on Patriotism"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
Mark Twain on Patriotism"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."
John F. Kennedy on Patriotism"Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'"
"This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution."
"Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable."
"Men are only as loyal as their options."
"Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease."