A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: law patriotism parking tickets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: optimism pessimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: optimism pessimism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “patriotism” Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: nations patriotism ridicule Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I find patriotism not only a refuge of scoundrels but of idiots and those who like to buy their thinking ready-made each morning in the vacuous newspapers. Every decade or so governments create wars and whip up a frenzy, so that we will not notice the shortcomings of our own side and will not question the assumptions of our society and demand more rational institutions and laws. —Marge Piercy More about this quote Tags: war news government patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: nations patriotism ridicule Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find patriotism not only a refuge of scoundrels but of idiots and those who like to buy their thinking ready-made each morning in the vacuous newspapers. Every decade or so governments create wars and whip up a frenzy, so that we will not notice the shortcomings of our own side and will not question the assumptions of our society and demand more rational institutions and laws. —Marge Piercy More about this quote Tags: war news government patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email