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 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., 
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every read more
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
 Our country is the common parent of all.
 [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]  
 Our country is the common parent of all.
 [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] 
 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! 
 Our country is wherever we are well off.
 [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]  
 Our country is wherever we are well off.
 [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.] 
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.
 And how can man die better
 Than facing fearful odds,
  For the ashes of his fathers
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 And how can man die better
 Than facing fearful odds,
  For the ashes of his fathers
   And the temples of his gods? 
 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 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.