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

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
Pierre Berton

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William James

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
George MacDonald

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Elizabeth Janeway

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
Jack Valenti

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
John Ciardi

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
Daniel Keys Moran

The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that.
Jerry West

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
Edgar Watson Howe

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
Ralph Nader

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
Thomas Fuller

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.
Kurt Eisner