John McCain Quotes

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

… keeper of the national conscience

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.

Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Work hard to do what's right, keep our future generation in focus and the future of our country in focus.

I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a place of selfishness, but I'm also cognizant of potential impact on others. And I try to make that impact positive.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

If we turn our back on the world's most vulnerable people, we're eschewing the values our country was founded on.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.