Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
'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.
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
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.
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!
I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change.
At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
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