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How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of read more
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something read more
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. read more
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have read more
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer
Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or read more
Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who read more
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.
