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Where liberty is, there is my country.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
He serves me most who serves his country best.
He serves me most who serves his country best.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to read more
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an
American!
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an
American!
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would
think of saying except in a desperate 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."
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
Our ships were British oak,
And hearts of oak our men.
Our ships were British oak,
And hearts of oak our men.