Dave Barry Quotes

My dad really loves and really helps his country, so I think leading the country would be the best thing for Liberia.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

I think there are many ways to serve your country.

For me politics is an opportunity to serve the country.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

There is one higher office than President, and I would call that patriot.

Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow. Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier? No! Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field

Even through sports, I have been serving the country. But later, I want to join politics.

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

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?

It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people.

I commit myself to serve my country.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.