Quotes on Patriotic

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.