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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a read more
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
Strike--for your altars and your fires;
Strike--for the green graves of your sires.
God--and your native land!
Strike--for your altars and your fires;
Strike--for the green graves of your sires.
God--and your native land!
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a
sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a
sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, read more
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
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Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
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.]
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love
alike, and none less dear than read more
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love
alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had
rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one
voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.