"The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"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"I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives."
"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't."
"I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said."
"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country."
"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country."