patriot

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.