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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“Voyage of the Good Ship Union”, in The Atlantic Monthly (March 1862) pp. 398-400
- America
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Old Ironsides (1830)In context
A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.
Homer900–800 BCIliad, Book XV, 496–497 (tr. Lord Derby)
- Life & Death
Bird-signs!
Fight for your country⁠—that is the best, the only omen!
Homer900–800 BCIliad, Book XII, 243 (tr. Robert Fagles)
There is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book IXIn context
- Family
One of the great attractions of patriotism⁠—it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
William Ralph Inge1860–1954“Our Present Discontents” (August 1919) in Outspoken Essays (1919), p. 2
There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah1876–1948Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore 30 October 1947.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (7 April 1775) p. 253
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.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (2 of 3)In context
- Freedom
- Religion
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (2 of 3)In context
- Clever Jabs
Ask not what your country can do for you⁠—ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming
Francis Scott Key1779–1843The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)In context
- America
O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
O’er the Land of the free and the home of the brave?
Francis Scott Key1779–1843The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)In context
- America
- Freedom