Famous Quotes

"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."

Barbara Ehrenreich on Patriotism

More quotes about Patriotism

• "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

More quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

• "If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good."

• "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."

• "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."

• "There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?"

• "We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."