Definition of Patriot

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Definition of Patriot
	Patriot One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests. Becoming to a patriot; patriotic. Related Definitions: And, Authority, Becoming, Country, His, One, Patriot, Patriotic, To, Who

Patriot Quotations

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire

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.
Bill Maher

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
Neil Young

Patriot Translations

patriot in Dutch is vaderlander, patriot
patriot in French is patriote
patriot in Spanish is patriota

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