PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISM
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, never! never! never!
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
Our country, right or wrong! When right, to
be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!
Carl Schurz—Speech in V. S. Senate. (1872) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Decatur)
Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
Scott—Marmion. Canto IV. St. 30.
Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Seneca—Octavia 444.
Had I a dozen sons,—each in my love alike,
- * * I had rather have eleven die nobly
for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 24.
I do love
My country's good with a respect more tender,
More holy and profound, than mine own life.
Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 111.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Algernon Sidney's motto.
He held it safer to be of the religion of the
King or Queen that were in being, for he knew
that he came raw into the world, and accounted
it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it.
John Taylor—The Old, OH, Very Old Man.
(Parr.)
A saviour of the silver -coasted isle.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Ode on Death of Duke of Wellington. Pt. VI.
Put none but Americans on guard tonight.
Attributed to Washington. The only basis
for this order seems to be found in Washington's circular letter to regimental commanders, dated April 30, 1777, regarding
recruits for his body guard. "You will
therefore send me none but natives." A few
months before, Thomas Hickey, a deserter
from the British army, had tried to poison
Washington, had been convicted and hanged.
Hands across the sea,
Feet on English ground,
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.
Byron Webber—Hands Across the Sea.
Let our object be, our country, our whole
country, and nothing but our country.
Daniel Webster—Address at the Laying of the Comer-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1825.
Thank God, I—I also—am an American!
Daniel Webster—Completion of Bunker Hill
Monument. June 17, 1843.
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I
give my hand and heart to this vote.
Daniel Webster—Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson.
I was born an American; I live an American;
I shall die an American!
Daniel Webster—Speech. July 17, 1850.
Patriotism has become a mere national self
assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with
no constructive duties.
H. G. Wells-—Future in America.
The lines of red are lines of blood, nobly and
unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty
of their fellowmen more than they loved their
own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we
should have to use the blood of America to
freshen the color of the flag. But if it should
ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once
more, and in being colored will be glorified and
purified.
Woodrow Wilson—Flag Day Speech. May
7,1915.
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.
Robt. C. Winthrop—Toast at Faneuil Hall.
July 4, 1845.
Our country, however bounded.
Toast founded on the speech of Winthrop.
| seealso = (See also Decatur)
| topic = Patriotism
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>There are no points of the compass on the
chart of true patriotism.
Robt. C. Winthhop—Letter to Boston Commercial Club. June 12, 1879.
Our land is the dearer for 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.
Rev. E. J. Young—Lesson of the Hour. In
Mag. of History. Extra. No. 43. Originally pub. in Monthly Religious Mag., Boston,
May, 1865.
| seealso = (See also Lincoln under Soldiers)
| topic = Patriotism
| page = 587
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| text = <poem>America is the crucible of God. It is the
melting pot where all the races are fusing and
reforming . . . these are the fires of God
you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with
you all. God is making the American.
Zangwill—The'Melting Pot.
