Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.
Barack ObamaTags: patriotism accountability national-security whistleblowers
Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.
Henry ClayTags: patriotism principles
Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.
Henry ClayTags: patriotism principles
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
Henry David ThoreauTags: identity patriotism
...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Theodore RooseveltTags: patriotism president american united-states-of-america theodore-roosevelt
Jazz is democracy in music.
Wynton MarsalisTags: patriotism social-commentary artistic
Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth
of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time?
Tags: patriotism patriotic poetry-quotes independence-day
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
Erma BombeckTags: patriotism america independence independence-day july-4
There's a school of thought today that rejects patriotism. People are made nervous by that intense allegiance to a country. They think it can only lead to war and bloodshed and that fights can be avoided if we all just compromise and get along. And, of course, compromise and getting along are great things as long as you're not sacrificing essential values. But I believe there's a line in the sand, some things that you have to be willing to stand up for, even if it means trouble. Charlie's patriotism is not blind, flag-waving jingoism: it's an intense allegiance to the American concept of liberty. He's through and through. He can talk about it and explain it. And he's shown he's willing to give everything for it. I admire him for that.
Andrew KlavanTags: inspirational liberty freedom philosophy patriotism war america attitude right-and-wrong beliefs right-and-wrong-in-philosophy
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.
Thomas JeffersonTags: patriotism
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