Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-06-09 Jun 9, 2010Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.~ Henry Brooks AdamsNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHow you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better.~ Mark Twain Jun 8, 2010I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands; one Nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.~ Rev. Francis Bellamy[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.~ James MadisonIf America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.~ Ezra Taft Benson Jun 7, 2010Where liberty dwells, there is my country.~ Benjamin FranklinThey [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the Divine Rights of the Common Man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith. ~ Dwight D. EisenhowerAll might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.~ Samuel Adams Jun 4, 2010Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.~ General Douglas MacArthurFrom the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.~ Friedrich August von HayekPatriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Jun 3, 2010Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.~ Albert EinsteinIf ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.~ Samuel AdamsNever give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print