| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.". |
| Daniel Webster | Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. |
| Edmund Burke | There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me. |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. |
| Henri De Bornier | Every man has two countries, his own and France. |
| Henry George | How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it. |
| Joseph Addison | There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. |
| Lord Acton | The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. |
| Montesquieu | Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. |
| Stephen Decatur | Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong! |
| Thomas Jefferson | Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. |
| Thomas Paine | The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. |
| Victor Hugo | There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind. |
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