I need help in looking for

[mmonk]

quotes concerning what patriotism is from the founding fathers of this country. I wanted to respond to a letter from someone in Iraq that wrote a letter saying sending them care packages and claiming to support him was a false patriotism if you opposed the plan to invade Iraq or the current president.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Two come to mind.....

"I can support the troops without supporting the President."
--Trent Lott (re: Clinton in Kosovo?)

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
-Mark Twain

[nostamj]

2. "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"

- Thomas Jefferson

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter."

- George Washington

"Patriotism mean to stand by the country.
It does not mean to stand by the President."

- Theodore Rossevelt

[auburngrad82]

3. two good websites

http://www.brainyquote.com/

http://www.alternet.org/story/17846

[vetwife]

4. Try these and then look at shrubs

Quotes



"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -Theodore Roosevelt

Classic War Quote by Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Classic War Quote by Benjamin Franklin
There never was a good war or a bad peace

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Don't join the burners. Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book, as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency; that should be your only censorship.

John F. Kennedy, 1962
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people
Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free
Classic War Quote by Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Classic War Quote by Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace

George Bush
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."
--Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect Bush