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I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by
her, right or wrong.
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by
her, right or wrong.
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.
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?
Our country, however bounded.
Our country, however bounded.
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never
never allows us to forget that we belong to read more
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never
never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
[Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]
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.
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?
This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!
This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!
'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.'
