The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
War then, is a relation – not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders.
Never judge a country by its politicians.
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.
In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of gay people in the Vatican, wouldn’t there be a greater outcry among liberals?
You’re not a patriot unless even when you lose, it’s still your country.
The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I’ve said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
Ronald Reagan basically legalized every illegal immigrant in this country. I just like to bring this up because every week I like to make Republican heads explode about how they love Ronald Reagan, but would despise everything he did.
You know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can’t do in a lot of other countries.
Maybe every other American movie shouldn’t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.
This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith – ‘I’m gonna put a boot in their ass.’ If you don’t do that, somehow you can’t be strong.
Everybody has a magazine and a channel. There are 500 channels and 500 magazines, and we wonder why we’re not united as a country.
To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you’re a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people out there that you put your faith in things that are unable to be proven – that you suspend critical thinking as the way to go.
Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First.
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it’s been taken over by the religious right.
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?
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
In this country your guilty until proven wealthy.