Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-09-23 Sep 23, 2025To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.~ Dr. G. Brock ChisolmOur 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 MacArthurA man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.~ C. S. Lewis Sep 22, 2025No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.~ Benjamin FranklinEvery time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.~ John F. KennedyWhen you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.~ Ronald Reagan Sep 19, 2025Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.~ Dr. Ron PaulNo more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.~ Edwin Hubbel ChapinThe republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.~ Elmer Davis Sep 18, 2025It takes two wings to fly.~ Eric SchaubThe patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.~ Thomas J. JacksonIf we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.~ Ulysses S. Grant Sep 17, 2025From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.~ Friedrich August von HayekThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund BurkeHe who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print