Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

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.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.