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I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you
want our weapons come and get them.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: a response of an ancient general
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Our country, however bounded.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: toast founded on the speech of Winthrop
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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.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: Works (vol. IV, p. 8), in a conversation with Jonathan Sewell
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Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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Our ships were British oak,
And hearts of oak our men.
Author: Samuel James Arnold
Source: Death of Nelson
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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.
Author: George Barrington (formerly Waldron)
Source: Prologue for the Opening of the Playhouse at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 331)
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Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Dumfries Volunteers
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For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Age of Bronze
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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.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Song of the Greeks
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Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--
It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Song of the Greeks
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred
toward any one.
Author: Edith Louisa Cavell
Source: quoted by the newspapers as before being shot by Germans in Brussels, Oct. 15, 1915
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"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."
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: The Defendant
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I
keep step to the music of the Union.
Author: Rufus Choate
Source: in a letter to a Worcester Whig Convention
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Our country is the common parent of all.
[Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Orationes in Catilinam (I, 7)
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Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 37), quoting Pacuvius
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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.
Author: Henry Clay
Source: In the U.S. Senate
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with
what is right in America.
Author: Henry Clay
Source: In the U.S. Senate
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I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by
her, right or wrong.
Author: John Jordan Crittenden
Source: in Congress when President Polk sent a message after Gen. Scott's win over Mexican army
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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she
always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Author: Stephen Decatur
Source: Toast given at Norfolk, see Mackenzie's "Life of Stephen Decatur"
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I
hate them!
Author: Stephen Decatur
Source: Toast given at Norfolk, see Mackenzie's "Life of Stephen Decatur"
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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.
Author: Daniel Decatur Emmett
Source: Dixie Land
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'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.
Author: George Farquhar
Source: The Beaux's Stratagem (act III, sc. 2, l. 89)
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And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
Author: Charles Fitzgeffrey (Fitzjeffrey)
Source: Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake (st. 213)
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Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind.
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
Source: motto of the "Liberator" (1837-39)
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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 73)
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Author: Nathan Hale
Source: his last words
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Strike--for your altars and your fires;
Strike--for the green graves of your sires.
God--and your native land!
Author: Fitz-Greene Halleck
Source: Marco Bozzaris
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And have they fixed the where, and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
Author: Robert Stephen Hawker
Source: Song of the Western Men, he asserts he wrote this ballad in 1825
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He serves his party best who serves the country best.
Author: Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Source: in his inaugural address
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I am not a Virginian but an American.
Author: Patrick Henry
Source: in the Continental Congress
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I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me
liberty, or give me death!
Author: Patrick Henry
Source: in the Continental Congress
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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Voyage of the Good Ship Union--Poems of the Class of '29
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He serves me most who serves his country best.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 206), (Pope's translation)
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And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 583), (Pope's translation)
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Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight?
Who blushes at the name?
When cowards mock the patriot's fate,
Who hangs his head for shame?
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 583), (Pope's translation)
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Our federal Union: it must be preserved.
Author: Andrew Jackson
Source: toast given at the Jefferson Birthday celebration in 1830
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain
force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow
warmer among the runs of Iona.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: A Journey to the Western Islands--Inch Kenneth
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Father of his country.
[Lat., Pater pariae.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (VIII, 244), title bestowed on Cicero (64 BC) after his consulship
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for
your country.
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (VIII, 244), title bestowed on Cicero (64 BC) after his consulship
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (VIII, 244), title bestowed on Cicero (64 BC) after his consulship
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over
this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of
our nature.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: in his first inaugural address
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Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a
hopeful view of the prospects of your own country? Why should it
be? Why should patriotism and pessimism be identical? Hope is
the mainspring of patriotism.
Author: David Lloyd George
Source: in the House of Commons
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And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: Horatius keeps the Bridge
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There are many different voice and languages; but there is but
one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true
"Father of your country."
[Lat., Vox diversa sonat: populorum est vox tamen una,
Cum verus Patriae diceris esse Pater.]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: De Spectaculis (III, 11)
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We, that would be known
The father of our people, in our study,
And vigilance for their safety, must not change
Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from
The secure shade of their own vines, to be
Scorched with the flames of war.
Author: Philip Massinger
Source: The Maid of Honour (act I, 1)
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Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if
need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must
declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will
make no compromise.
Author: Terence Joseph McSwiney, M.P.
Source: from a document in his possession when he was sentenced in Aug., 1920
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'Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom!
Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear
The living degradation we may know
If we do dread death for a sacred cause?
Author: Terence Joseph McSwiney, M.P.
Source: lines written when a boy, in the "Nation", Nov. 3, 1920
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Liberty, equality, fraternity.
[Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]
Author: Motto
Source: Watchword of French Revolution
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