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“Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.”
Henry Clay Quotes 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.”
Henry Clay Quotes 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.”
John Jordan Crittenden Quotes 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.”
Stephen Decatur Quotes 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!”
Stephen Decatur Quotes 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!
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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 Quotes 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.”
George Farquhar Quotes 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.”
Charles Fitzgeffrey (Fitzjeffrey) Quotes Source: Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake (st. 213)
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“Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind.”
William Lloyd Garrison Quotes 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.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 73)
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale Quotes 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!”
Fitz-Greene Halleck Quotes 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!”
Robert Stephen Hawker Quotes 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.”
Rutherford Birchard Hayes Quotes Source: in his inaugural address
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“I am not a Virginian but an American.”
Patrick Henry Quotes 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!”
Patrick Henry Quotes Source: in the Continental Congress
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“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes 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.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 206), (Pope's translation)
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“And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes 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?”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 583), (Pope's translation)
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“Our federal Union: it must be preserved.”
Andrew Jackson Quotes Source: toast given at the Jefferson Birthday celebration in 1830
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes 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.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: A Journey to the Western Islands--Inch Kenneth
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“Father of his country.
[Lat., Pater pariae.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 244), title bestowed on Cicero (64 BC) after his consulship
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