You May Also Like / View all maxioms
 Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a 
hopeful view of the read more 
 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. 
Our true nationality is mankind.
Our true nationality is mankind.
 The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield 
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all read more 
 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. 
I am not a Virginian but an American.
I am not a Virginian but an American.
 Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing 
but our country.
   - Daniel read more 
 Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing 
but our country.
   - Daniel Webster, 
 The whole earth is the brave man's country.
 [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]  
 The whole earth is the brave man's country.
 [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] 
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
 I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I 
know no South, no North, no East, no read more 
 I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I 
know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any 
allegiance. 
Our country, however bounded.
Our country, however bounded.