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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! (Quote by - Stephen Decatur)

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. (Quote by - George Santayana)

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. (Quote by - Henry Clay)

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! (Quote by - William Pitt, Earl of Chatham)

A savior of the silver-coasted isle. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Our true nationality is mankind. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)

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. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. (Quote by - Juvenal)

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. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)

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 runs of Iona. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. (Quote by - Byron Webber)

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. (Quote by - Nathan Hale)

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)

They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword. (Quote by - Silvio Pellico)

Our country is the common parent of all. (Quote by - Cicero)

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal. (Quote by - George Barrington)

Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind. (Quote by - William Lloyd Garrison)

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. (Quote by - Rev. E.J. Young)

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! (Quote by - Robert Stephen Hawker)

He serves me most who serves his country best. (Quote by - Homer)

The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)

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? (Quote by - Homer)

Our country is wherever we are well off. (Quote by - Cicero)

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