PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISM
Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-
It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.
God save our gracious king,
Long live our noble king,
God save the king.
I realize that patriotism' is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
Edith Cavell. Quoted by the Newspapers as her last words before she was shot to death by the Germans in Brussels, Oct. 12, 1915. </poem>
"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."
G. K. Chesterton—The Defendant.
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We join ourselves to no party that does not
carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the
Union.
Rtrpus Choate—Letter to a Worcester Whig
Convention. Oct. 1, 1855.
Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all.
Cicero—Orationes in CatUinam. I. 7.
I have heard something said about allegiance
to the South: I know no South, no North, no
East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Henry Clay—In the U. S. Senate. (1848)
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| text = <poem>I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
John J. Crittenden. In Congress, when
President Polk sent a message after the defeat of the Mexican General Arista by General Taylor. May, 1846.
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| text = Our country! In her intercourse with foreign
nations, may she always be in the right; but our
country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur—Toast given at Norfolk,
April, 1816. See Mackenzie's Life of Stephen Decatur. Ch. XIV.
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| text = <poem>I "wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Ole times dar am not forgotten,
Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie
Land!
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie' Land I'll take my stand
To lib and die in Dixie.
Daniel D. Emmett—Dixie Land. See account in Century, Aug., 1887. A Southern
version was written by Albert Pike.
'Twas for the good of my country that I should
be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country—I'm a Roman for that.
Geo. Farquhar—The Beau^ Stratagem. Act
III. Sc. 2. L. 89.
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Libert^, egalite, fraternity.
Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Watchword of French Revolution.
And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
Charles Fitzgefprey—Life arid Death of Sir
Francis Drake. St. 213. (1600)
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| text = <poem>Our country is the world—our countrymen are
all mankind.
William Lloyd Garrison—Motto of the Liberator., 1837-1839. "My country" originally—later changed to "Our country."
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| text = <poem>Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for
my country.
Nathan Hale—His Last Words, Sept. 22,
. Stewart's Life of Capt. Nathan Hale.
Ch. VII.
Strike—for your altars and your fires;
Strike—for the green graves of your sires;
God—and your native land!
Fitz-Greene Halleck—Marco Bozzaris.
And have they fixed the where, and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
Robert Stephen Hawker—Song of the
Western Men. Mr. Hawker asserts that he
wrote the ballad in 1825, all save the chorus
and the last two lines, which since the 'imprisonment by James II, 1688, of the seven
Bishops, have been popular throughout
Cornwall. (Trelawny was Bishop of Bristol.)
First appearance in the Royal Devonport
Telegram and Plymouth Chronicle, Sept. 2,
1826. Story of the ballad in Macaulay's
History of England. Footnote for Hawker,
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| text = He serves his party best who serves the country
best.
Rutherford B. Hayes. Inaugural Address,
March 5, 1877.
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| text = <poem>I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry—In the Continental Congress,
Sept. 5, 1774.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
Holmes—Voyage of the Good Ship Union.
Poems of the Class of '29.
He serves me most who serves his country best.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. X. L. 206
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| text = <poem>And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XV. L. 583
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