To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.