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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.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 3, 35)
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The whole earth is the brave man's country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Fasti (I, 501)
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My country is the world, and my religion to do good.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: Rights of Man (ch. V)
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I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
[Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberte de mon pays.]
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: Rights of Man (ch. V)
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They know no country, own no lord,
Their home the camp, their law the sword.
Author: Silvio Pellico
Source: Enfernio de Messina (act V, sc. 2), a free rendering of a passage
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Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
Author: Silvio Pellico
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!
Author: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Source: in a speech
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of
the world.
Author: Plutarch
Source: On Banishment
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A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VI, 4, 13)
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Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when
wrong, to be put right!
Author: Carl (Karl) Schurz
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?
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: Marmion (canto IV, st. 30)
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Octavia (444)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at III, iii)
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to
all others because you were born in it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at III, iii)
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a
healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's
nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set
again.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: John Bull's Other Island (preface)
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out
of the human race.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: O'Flaherty, V.C.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
Author: Algernon Sidney
Source: Algernon, his motto
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He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that
were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and
accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it.
Author: John Taylor ("The Water Poet")
Source: The Old, Old, Very Old Man, (Parr.)
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A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (pt. VI)
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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and
allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot
shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their
choice.
Author: Jesse Ventura
Source: on vetoing a Minnesota state law requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance
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Put none but Americans on guard tonight.
Author: Jesse Ventura
Source: on vetoing a Minnesota state law requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance
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Hands across the sea,
Feet on English ground,
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.
Author: Byron Webber
Source: Hands Across the Sea
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I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an
American!
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: in a speech
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Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing
but our country.
- Daniel Webster,
Author: Daniel Webster
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!
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: on the completion of the Bunker Hill monument
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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a
sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
Author: H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells)
Source: Future in America
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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.
Author: Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Source: Flag Day Speech
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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true
patriotism.
Author: Robert C. Winthrop
Source: in a letter to the Boston Commercial Club
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Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or
however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements
more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our
hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.
Author: Robert C. Winthrop
Source: Toast at Faneuil Hall
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Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our
martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into
thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It
is only by the giving of life that we can have life.
Author: Rev. E.J. Young
Source: Lesson of the Hour
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American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all
the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of
God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is
making the American.
Author: Israel Zangwill
Source: The Melting Pot
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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Author: Alfred Adler
Source: None
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I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.
Author: Neil Kinnock
Source: None
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Source: None
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Author: Edward Abbey
Source: None
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Author: Malcolm X
Source: None
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Author: General George S. Patton
Source: None
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Our true nationality is mankind.
Author: H. G. Wells
Source: None
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: None
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Author: Charles de Gaulle
Source: None
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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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: G. K. Chesterton
Source: None
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.
Author: John Dalberg Acton
Source: None
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Iraq is an unjust war.
(spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice..
stated in articles written for NY Times.. printed
in USA Today).
Author: Jimmy Carter
Source: None
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
Author: Walter Scott
Source: None
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Source: None
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In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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