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'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. read more
'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.'
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone
or brass, it will beat read more
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone
or brass, it will beat them down.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she
always be in the right; but our country, right read more
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she
always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Hands across the sea,
Feet on English ground,
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world read more
Hands across the sea,
Feet on English ground,
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
