And without a thorough understanding of these, it is impossible to decide, with any hope of fairness, upon Cicero's conduct as a patriot and a politician.
Whigs of Massachusetts, in Faneuil Hall assembled, must be true to this early scene of patriot struggles; they must be true to their own name, which has descended from the brave men who took part in those struggles.
Let the rich grow poorer as the war goes on, let there be a facing of utter poverty, as the patriot faces death on the field.
The old patriot Thadeus Stevens, in the opening of a speech in a preliminary skirmish between patriotism and usurers, said: "I approach the subject with more depression of spirits than I ever before approached any question.
Your father himself often questioned whether the patriot could not serve his people better at a distance than in their midst.
He who had fed his fancy on high visions, cherishing in himself the latent patriot and hero, had been driven by a girl's caprice to break the first law of manliness and honour!
His motion was seconded by that great patriot and philanthropist, Sir George Saville.
He was no patriot in the ordinary acceptation of the word; for he took the habitable globe as his country and wished to consider every foreigner as his brother.
Canada has caught a bad cold from extreme fatigue in the patriot war.
What patriot suffered, but by a traitor's perfidy?
You are a man of talents and courage, and so much the more dangerous to the patriot cause.
A nobler end awaits hispatriot head; In other sort he'll join the illustrious dead.
Because the Virginia Patriot has had many trumpeters, and very loud ones; but the Massachusetts Patriot none, though false accusers and vile calumniators in abundance.
The resolves of the house of Burgesses of Virginia, upon the stamp act, did great honor to that province, and to the eminent patriot Patrick Henry, Esq.
The chief opponent of their authenticity was the zealous patriot Dobrovsky; and he disputed their claim to historic worth on philological grounds.
This despatch I hold in my hand is from an old friend, General Alvarez, who, though he may not boast sangre-azul in his veins, is as brave a soldier and pure a patriot as any in the land.
Others less honest seek refuge in its caves and coverts, fugitives from justice and the gaols--not always criminals, however, for within it the proscribed patriot and defeated soldier oft find an asylum.
The death of Louis Kossuth, some time ago, reminded her former neighbors here that she led the dance with him at a ball in Lenox, when the exiled patriot was a guest of the Sedgwicks.
There is always something which seems less than the intention in a monument to heroism or to goodness, the patriot of the country, or the missionary of civilization.
They do it as well for the sinner as for the saint,--as well for the traitorous Secessionist striving to destroy his country as for the patriot endeavoring to sustain it.
No patriot would go into the war with such a miserable phiz as that.
A coronal, which, with undoubting hand, I twine around the brows of patriot HOPE!
I dare twine thy vernal wreath Around the brows of patriot Hope!
Howe's proclamation, and the many defeats of the patriot army, had a very depressing effect.
The latter part of the year 1776 was a period of doubt and despondency to the patriot troops.
Among others who sought her counsel upon political matters were Samuel and John Adams, Dickinson, that pure patriot of Pennsylvania, Jefferson, Gerry, and Knox.
During the war two women of Concord dressed in men's clothing, captured a spy bearing papers which proved of the utmost importance to the patriot forces.
This time the young Patriot came as the conquering hero, and by the capture of the fortification of Heusden he cut off the road which connected the province of Holland with Germany.
But disheartened by the disgrace of foreign invasion, by the muddling of Patriot and regent, they sulk at home and await the things that are bound to come.
It reached the patriot camp soon after midnight on April 26.
This seemed an opportunity to play the patriot and at the same time secure a footing in the monastery.
How crude the patriot forces at this time were is apparent from a letter from a Danish officer to Krumpen, in which it is said that out of a body of about three thousand only one hundred and fifty were skilled soldiers.
His hopes were already well-nigh shattered when the report was wafted across the lake that his father, along with the other patriot leaders, had been slaughtered in the capital.
Christiern with his Cabinet then withdrew, leaving the patriot leaders in the great hall guarded by a body of Danish soldiers.
He could not even ask the advice of Gad, his father's trusty friend, for that doughty patriot was at the moment outside the realm.
The patriot army now proceeded to the capital, and pitched their camp on the hill north of the town.
There were many difficulties, however, with which the patriot party had to contend.
While there, he learned that the Bishop of Linköping was more than half minded to join the patriot cause.
The situation of the Americans was critical in the extreme, and it was absolutely necessary to cross the East River before the sadly harried and beaten ranks of the patriot army were attacked again by the victorious Britishers.
Charles Buonaparte was an ardent Corsican patriot and often plotted how Corsica could win her freedom from France, but nevertheless he held a French office and was willing to send his sons to French schools.
Ever watchful for her husband's honour, that admirable woman, as ardent a patriot as himself, refused the generous tender of the Catholics of Dublin.
A patriot of Ulster rather than of Ireland, he had served against the Desmonds, and had been a looker on at Smerwick.
The vice of Ireland was exactly the other way, so that in this respect also, the patriot was the liberator.
A new series of corporation and county meetings was convened by the Patriot party, which warmly condemned the Perpetual Mutiny Act, and as warmly approved the repeal of Poyning's Act, and the 6th of George I.
It miscarried, and left another deposit of disagreement between the actual and the former leader of the Patriot party.
This statute, even more objectionable than the law of Poynings, continued unrepealed till 1782, notwithstanding all the arguments and all the protests of the Irish patriot party.
But the Patriot Commoners were not to be so deterred.
To many, Nottingham was eminently a 'patriot and a lover of the Church.
He should live in history as a true patriot and a man of the highest integrity.
I think the best patriot is the man who wants his country to do right.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patriot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chauvinist; guerrilla; irregular; loyalist; partisan
