The Ideas Store

Description: I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. Arthur C. Clarke

Description: I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interest in history and space is a unique opportunity. Christa McAuliffe

Description: We must never confuse space colonization with the conquest of space. The world beyond ours is unimaginably vast; it will be what it has always been. When humankind begins to make its home in space, it is we who will change. Cameron M. Smith

Description: A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover. CS Lewis

Description: "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." ― Albert Einstein

Description: "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. " Winston S. Churchill

Description: "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." James Baldwin

Description: "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism." Howard Thurman

Description: "...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier a good soldier .. [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability." George S. Patton Jr.

Description: "In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it." Barack Obama

Description: "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15." Ronald Reagan

Description: "He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him." Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Description: "He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him." Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Description: "It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen." Aristotle, Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

Description: "The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain." Napoleon Bonaparte

Description: "My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time." Edward Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian

Description: "My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up." Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

Description: "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." James Baldwin

Description: "The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously." Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

Description: "Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not." Jiddu Krishnamurti

Description: "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." James Baldwin

Description: "I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit." Theodore Roosevelt

Description: "He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him." Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Description: "It's not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it's the most patriotic thing we can do." E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

Description: "Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts." Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

Description: "If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves." Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Description: "In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it." Barack Obama

Description: "If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams

Description: "To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism." G. Edward Griffin

Description: "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." Theodore Roosevelt

Description: "The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country" George S. Patton Jr.

Description: "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official." Theodore Roosevel

Description: "If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves." Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Description: "All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born." Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon

Description: "Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance." Theodore Roosevelt

Description: "Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority." Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms