Nation and Patriotism

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral purpose. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

 

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Millions of tongues record thee, and anew Their children’s lips shall echo them, and say— “Here, where the sword united nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day!” And this is much, and all which will not pass away. 4

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Today we feel what Franklin Roosevelt called the warm courage of national unity. This unity against terror is now extending across the world.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee,

Nationalism is, in my opinion, nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

A seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the way God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a granfalloon . Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows—and any nation, anytime, anywhere.

The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington To make man blush there was but one!

It’s guid to be merry and wise, It’s guid to be honest and true, It’s guid to support Caledonia’s cause And bide by the buff and the blue.

We aren’t no thin red ’eroes.

He is an Englishman! For he himself has said it, And it’s greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman!

What stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live?

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!