| Author |
Quotes |
| Patrick Henry | I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! |
| Plutarch | Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. |
| Rev E J Young | Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life. |
| Robert C Winthrop | There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. |
| Robert C Winthrop | Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. |
| Robert Stephen Hawker | And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! |
| Rufus Choate | We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. |
| Rutherford Birchard Hayes | He serves his party best who serves the country best. |
| Samuel James Arnold | Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. |
| Silvio Pellico | They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword. |
| Silvio Pellico | Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. |
| Sinclair Lewis | Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. |
| Sir Walter Scott | Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? |
| Stephen Decatur | Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. |
| Stephen Decatur | Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! |
| Terence Joseph McSwiney M P | Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise. |
| Terence Joseph McSwiney M P | 'Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear The living degradation we may know If we do dread death for a sacred cause? |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 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. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? |
| Thomas Campbell | Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free. |
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