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What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!—ADDISON, Cato
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.—BRANN, The Iconoclast
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.—BURKE, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.—NATHAN HALE
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The really patriotic citizen is the one who loves.—CARDINAL HAYES
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.—PATRICK HENRY
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And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.—HOMER, Iliad
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.—HOMER, Iliad
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.—HORACE
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
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The least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman, in the laws and constitution of his country, and is equally called upon to make a generous contribution in support of them;—whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.—JUNIUS
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When a nation's life's at hazard,
We've no time to think of men!—GEORGE LIPPARD, Independence Bell
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It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label.—THOMAS MASARYK
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Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations .. . Institutions by themselves are not enough.—THOMAS MASARYK
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.—POPE, On His Grotto at Twickenham
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We should behave toward our country as women behave toward the men they love. A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing and trying to improve him. We should cast the same affectionate but sharp glance at our country. We should love it, but also insist upon telling it all its faults. The noisy, empty "patriot," not the critic, is the dangerous citizen.—J. B. PRIESTLEY
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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 afterward. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives? Whatever the land may be, he owes to it the most precious thing possessed by man, the morality of his actions and the love of virtue.—ROUSSEAU, Emile, or Education
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Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.—CARL SCHURZ
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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!
Whose heart bath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand?—SCOTT, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
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Stood for his country's glory fast,
And nail'd her colors to the mast!—SCOTT, Marmion
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I do love
My country's good with a respect more tender,
More holy, more profound, than mine own life.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
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Sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars!—SHAKESPEARE, Titus Andronicus
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Such is the condition of human affairs, that to wish for the greatness of one's own country, is to wish for the harm of its neighbors.—VOLTAIRE
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I have alreddy given Two cousins to the war, & I stand reddy to sacrifiss my wife's brother ruther 'n not see the rebelyin krusht. And if wuss comes to wuss, I'll shed ev'ry drop of blud my able-bodid relations has got.—ARTEMUS WARD, To the Prince of Wales
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Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.—DANIEL WEBSTER
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There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin,—I will die in the last ditch.—WILLIAM OF ORANGE
