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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

- Shelley Winters

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

- Bill O'Reilly

A woman, who shall remain nameless, said to me, `You`re going to love LA, Paul, because over here ambition is not a dirty word.` And I thought, `Well, you`ve named one of the things that I feel quite patriotic about.` It`s still a little bit embarrassing in Britain if you`re seen to try.

- Paul Bettany

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

- Bill Maher

It`s one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don`t try to knock them down. And that`s a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It`s so patriotic!

- David Beckham

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

- Douglas MacArthur

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

- Jesse Ventura

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

- Robert Trout

Drew Carey was the person who got me involved in this -- he`s so patriotic,

- Kathy Kinney

He`s very patriotic about this country.

- Michael Coulthard

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

- Kelly Miller

In this situation, the reasonable observer must be deemed aware of the patriotic uses, both historical and present, of the phrase `In God We Trust,`

- Robert King

(The pamphlet) was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

- Terry Pratchett

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

- Kim Campbell

Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one`s conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

- A. P. Herbert

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

- Adam Clymer

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

- Alan Seeger

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

- Alberto Madrigal

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

- Alf Ellerton

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

- Amy Hall
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

- Andrea Bagley

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

- Andy Munson

I renounce (asylum) for political, civic and patriotic reasons to return immediately to Ecuador and retake power,

- Ashley Mason

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

- Barbara Devore

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

- John Stuart Mill

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

- Stanley Milgram