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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 Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence. - George William Curtis 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" Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 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 I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! . . . . Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie. - Daniel Decatur Emmett, Dixie Land 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country--I'm a Roman for that. - George Farquhar, The Beaux's Stratagem (act III, sc. 2, l. 89) And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. - Charles Fitzgeffrey (Fitzjeffrey), Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake (st. 213) Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind. - William Lloyd Garrison, motto of the "Liberator" (1837-39) It should be the work of a genuine and noble patriotism to raise the life of the nation to the level of its privileges; to harmonize its general practice with its abstract principles; to reduce to actual facts the ideals of its institutions; to elevate instruction into knowledge; to deepen knowledge into wisdom; to render knowledge and wisdom complete in righteousness; and to make the love of country perfect in the love of man. - Henry Giles In peace patriotism really consists only in this--that every one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, also learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his own house. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 73) I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country. - John Gunther I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. - Nathan Hale, his last words Patriotism is a blind and irrational impulse unless it is founded on a knowledge of the blessings we are called to secure and the privileges we propose to defend. - Robert Hall Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires. God--and your native land! - Fitz-Greene Halleck, Marco Bozzaris And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! - Robert Stephen Hawker, Song of the Western Men, he asserts he wrote this ballad in 1825 He serves his party best who serves the country best. - Rutherford Birchard Hayes, in his inaugural address I am not a Virginian but an American. - Patrick Henry, in the Continental Congress I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! - Patrick Henry The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Voyage of the Good Ship Union--Poems of the Class of '29 He serves me most who serves his country best. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. X, l. 206), (Pope's translation) And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 583), (Pope's translation) Displaying page 2 of 6 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6
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