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 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! 
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a read more
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
 Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
 That we can die but once to save our read more 
 Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
 That we can die but once to save our country! 
 And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
 Leaving his country for his country's sake.  
 And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
 Leaving his country for his country's sake. 
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
 The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by 
men who loved the liberty of read more 
 The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by 
men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved 
their fellowmen more than they lover their own lives and 
fortunes. God forbid that we would have to use the blood of 
America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever 
be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being 
colored will be glorified and purified. 
 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.] 
 That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain 
force upon the plain of Marathon, or read more 
 That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain 
force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow 
warmer among the runs of Iona.