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 Hands across the sea,
 Feet on English ground,
  The old blood is bold blood, the wide world read more 
 Hands across the sea,
 Feet on English ground,
  The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. 
 The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the 
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is read more 
 The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the 
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! 
 We, that would be known
 The father of our people, in our study,
  And vigilance for their read more 
 We, that would be known
 The father of our people, in our study,
  And vigilance for their safety, must not change
   Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from
    The secure shade of their own vines, to be
     Scorched with the flames of war. 
 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.] 
 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. 
 Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing 
but our country.
   - Daniel read more 
 Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing 
but our country.
   - Daniel Webster, 
 Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of 
the world.  
 Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of 
the world. 
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
 I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you 
want our weapons come and get them.  
 I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you 
want our weapons come and get them.