“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.”– Bill Vaughan Related Quotes “Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.”– Richard M. Nixon “I want to light the lights of patriotism.”– Lech Walesa “It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.”– John Amery