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The union of hearts, the union of hands, and the flag of our Union forever. - George Pope Morris Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] - Motto, Watchword of French Revolution, the motto of France Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. - George Jean Nathan No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people. - Cornelius Nepos Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. - George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) The love of country is more powerful than reason itself. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 3, 35) The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (I, 501) Our country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine My country is the world, and my religion to do good. - Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (ch. V) I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. [Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberte de mon pays.] - attributed to Claude le Pelletier (Peletier) They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword. - Silvio Pellico, Enfernio de Messina (act V, sc. 2), a free rendering of a passage Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. - attributed to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, denied by him, also attributed to Robert Goodloe Harper, of South Carolina If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never! - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, in a speech Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. - Plutarch, On Banishment A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus), De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VI, 4, 13) To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. - George Santayana Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! - Carl (Karl) Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto IV, st. 30) To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Octavia (444) Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's. - William Shakespeare I love my country's good, with a respect more tender, more holy and profound, than my own life. - William Shakespeare Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Volumnia at I, iii) I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Cominius at III, iii) Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. - George Bernard Shaw Displaying page 4 of 6 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6
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