Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight?
Who blushes at the name?
When cowards mock the patriot's fate,
Who hangs his head for shame?
Our federal Union: it must be preserved.
Andrew Jackson—Toast given at the Jefferson
Birthday Celebration in 1830. See W. J.
Sumner's Life of Jackson.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
(1775)
| topic = Patriotism
| page = 586
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of
Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer
among the ruins of Iona.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = A Journey to the Western
Islands. Inch Kenneth.
| author =
| work =
| place =
| note =
| topic = Patriotism
| page = 586
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = Pater patriae.
Father of his country.
Juvenaij—Sat. VIII. 244. Title bestowed
on Cicero (B.C. 64) after his consulship, "a
mark of distinction which none ever gained
before." Plutarch—Life of Cicero. Pliny.
Bk. VII, calls Cicero "Parens patriae."
Title conferred on Peter the Great by the
Russian Senate. (1721) See Post-Boy,
Dec. 28-30, 1721. Also applied to Augustus
Cesar and Marius.
| seealso = (See also Martial, Massinger, Seneca, also
Knox under Washington)
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Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberty de
mon pays.
I die content, I die for the liberty of my
country.
Attributed to Lb Pelletter, also to Marshal
Lannes.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from
every battlefield and patriot grave to every living
heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as surely they will be, by the
better angels of our nature.
Lincoln—Inaugural Address. March 4, 1861.
Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to
take a hopeful view of the prospects of your own
country? Why should it be? Why should patriotism and pessimism be identical? Hope is
the mainspring of patriotism.
D. Lloyd George—House of Commons, Oct.
30, 1919.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?
Macaulay—Horatius keeps the Bridge.
.JTwere 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?
Terence McSwiney—Lines written when a
boy. In the Nation, Nov. 3, 1920.
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 McSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork.
From a document in his possession when he
was sentenced, in August, 1920.
Vox diversa sonat: populorum est vox tamen una,
Cum verus Patrlb diceris esse Pater.
There are many different voices and languages; but there is but one voice of the
peoples when you are declared to be the true
"Father of your country."
Martial—De Spectaculis. ILL 11.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Juvenal)
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.
| author = Massinger
| work = The Maid of Honour. Act I. 1.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Juvenal)
Nescio quariatale solum dulcedine cartes
Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never allows us to forget
that we belong to it.
Qym—E-pistolas Ex Ponlo. I. 3. 35.
Omne solum forti patria est.
The whole earth is the brave man's country.
Ovid—Fasti. I. 501.
| seealso = (See also Paine, Plutarch)
| topic = Patriotism
| page = 586
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Patria est, ubicunque est bene.
Our country is wherever we are well off.
Pacuvtus, quoted by Cicero—Tuseidan. Disputations. V. 37. Aristophanes. Plautus. Euripides—Fragmenta Incerta.
Phtpiskus—Dion Cassius. I. 171.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Qutntus)
My country is the world, and my religion is
to do good.
Thos. Paine—Bights of M an. Ch. V.
lg
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Ovtd)
They know no country, own no lord,
Their home the camp, their law the sword.
Free rendering of passage in Silvio Pellico's
Enfernio de Messina. Act V. Sc. 2.
Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
Attributed to Chas. C. Ptnckney when Ambassador to the French Republic. (1796)
Denied by him. Said to have been "Not a
penny—not a sixpence." Attributed also to
Robert Goodloe Harper, of South Carolina.
I have ten thousand for defense, but none
to surrender; if you want our weapons,
come and get them.
The response of an ancient General.
