"My country, right or wrong, " is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober. "

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man s ...

And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for y ...

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country tha ...

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.