To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.
The tactic of leading people into. . . a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism. . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.
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.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.
You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.
Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends.
[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.
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. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.
