I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. – Jesse Ventura
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but its not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. Were not free – if we were, wed allow people their freedom. – Jesse Ventura
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? Thats why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. – Jesse Ventura
I dont think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. Theres always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. – Jesse Ventura
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)