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I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you want our weapons come and get them. - Unattributed Author, a response of an ancient general Our country, however bounded. - Unattributed Author, toast founded on the speech of Winthrop A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. - John Quincy Adams, Works (vol. IV, p. 8), in a conversation with Jonathan Sewell Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! - Joseph Addison, Cato (act IV, sc. 4) Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. - Samuel James Arnold, Death of Nelson From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal. - George Barrington (formerly Waldron), Prologue for the Opening of the Playhouse at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. - Ambrose Bierce They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the national anthem. - Humphrey Bogart The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 331) Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted. - Robert Burns, Dumfries Volunteers For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Age of Bronze Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free. - Thomas Campbell, Song of the Greeks Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. - Thomas Campbell, Song of the Greeks I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. - Edith Louisa Cavell, quoted by the newspapers as before being shot by Germans in Brussels, Oct. 15, 1915 "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Defendant We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. - Rufus Choate, in a letter to a Worcester Whig Convention Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Orationes in Catilinam (I, 7) Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 37), quoting Pacuvius I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. - Henry Clay, In the U.S. Senate There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. - William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. - John Jordan Crittenden, in Congress when President Polk sent a message after Gen. Scott's win over Mexican army Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. - Stephen Decatur, Toast given at Norfolk, see Mackenzie's "Life of Stephen Decatur" Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. - John Dryden Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! - Albert Einstein Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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