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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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“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
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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“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.]”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes 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.”
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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“Liberty, equality, fraternity.
[Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]”
Motto Quotes Source: Watchword of French Revolution
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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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“The whole earth is the brave man's country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Fasti (I, 501)
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“My country is the world, and my religion to do good.”
Thomas Paine Quotes 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.]”
Thomas Paine Quotes 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.”
Silvio Pellico Quotes 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.”
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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“Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of
the world.”
Plutarch Quotes 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.]”
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Quotes 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!”
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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“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) Quotes 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.”
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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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to
all others because you were born in it.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at III, iii)
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