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 To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the 
father of his country.
 [Lat., Servare read more 
 To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the 
father of his country.
 [Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.] 
 Where's the coward that would not dare
 To fight for such a land?  
 Where's the coward that would not dare
 To fight for such a land? 
 Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love 
alike, and none less dear than read more 
 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. 
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
 For what were all these country patriots born?
 To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?  
 For what were all these country patriots born?
 To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? 
 I do love
 My country's good with a respect more tender,
  More holy and profound, then mine read more 
 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. 
 'Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom!
 Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear
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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? 
 And have they fixed the where, and when?
 And shall Trelawny die?
  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
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 And have they fixed the where, and when?
 And shall Trelawny die?
  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
   Will know the reason why! 
 There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with 
what is right in America.  
 There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with 
what is right in America.