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You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Humanité (18 July 1922)
- War & Peace
Everything I did, I did for my country.
PPPol Pot1925–1998Nate Thayer interview (1997)
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
- Courage
- War & Peace
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale1755–1776Last words before he was hanged by the British as a spy (22 September 1776), in William Hull’s account of what Captain John Montresor, who was there, told him the next day
- Life & Death
When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Daniel Webster1782–1852Second Reply to Hayne (1830)
- America
It is the American sound. It is hopeful, big-hearted, idealistic, daring, decent, and fair. That’s our heritage; that is our song.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address (1985)
- America
We will stand bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans. The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun.
Donald Trumpborn 1946Donald Trump’s Second Inaugural Address (2025)
- America
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
The game’s afoot!
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry, “God for Harry! England and Saint George!”
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry V (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by King HenryIn context
- War & Peace
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green,
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
William Blake1757–1827And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time (c. 1808)In context
- Religion
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.
Robert Burns1759–1796My Heart’s in the Highlands (1790)In context
- Nature
Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee
William Wordsworth1770–1850London, 1802 (1807)In context
- Poetry
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