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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.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: A Journey to the Western Islands--Inch Kenneth
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for
your country.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , 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.
Abraham Lincoln
Quotes , 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.
David Lloyd George
Quotes , 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?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Quotes , Source: Horatius keeps the Bridge
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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.
Philip Massinger
Quotes , 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.
Terence Joseph McSwiney, M.P.
Quotes , 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?
Terence Joseph McSwiney, M.P.
Quotes , Source: lines written when a boy, in the "Nation", Nov. 3, 1920
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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)
Quotes , Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 3, 35)
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Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
Silvio Pellico
Quotes , Source: Enfernio de Messina (act V, sc. 2), a free rendering of a passage
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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, Earl of Chatham
Quotes , Source: in a speech
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Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when
wrong, to be put right!
Carl (Karl) Schurz
Quotes , Source: Speech in the U.S. Senate
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Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
Sir Walter Scott
Quotes , Source: Marmion (canto IV, st. 30)
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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
Quotes , Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at I, iii)
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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
Quotes , Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at III, iii)
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I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an
American!
Daniel Webster
Quotes , Source: in a speech
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Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing
but our country.
- Daniel Webster,
Daniel Webster
Quotes , Source: in an address at the laying of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill monument
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Thank God, I--I also--am an American!
Daniel Webster
Quotes , Source: on the completion of the Bunker Hill monument
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The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by
men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved
their fellowmen more than they lover their own lives and
fortunes. God forbid that we would have to use the blood of
America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever
be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being
colored will be glorified and purified.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Quotes , Source: Flag Day Speech
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