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 PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISM

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "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." G. K. Chesterton—The Defendant. t | seealso = (See also {{sc|Decatur) We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. Rtrpus Choate—Letter to a Worcester Whig Convention. Oct. 1, 1855. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all. Cicero—Orationes in CatUinam. I. 7. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. Henry Clay—In the U. S. Senate. (1848) | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. John J. Crittenden. In Congress, when President Polk sent a message after the defeat of the Mexican General Arista by General Taylor. May, 1846. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Chesterton, Decatur) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. Stephen Decatur—Toast given at Norfolk, April, 1816. See Mackenzie's Life of Stephen Decatur. Ch. XIV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Crittenden, Schurz, Winthhop}}) | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I "wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie' Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie. Daniel D. Emmett—Dixie Land. See account in Century, Aug., 1887. A Southern version was written by Albert Pike. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country—I'm a Roman for that. Geo. Farquhar—The Beau^ Stratagem. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 89. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Barrington) Libert^, egalite, fraternity. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. Charles Fitzgefprey—Life arid Death of Sir Francis Drake. St. 213. (1600) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Barrinoton}}) | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind. William Lloyd Garrison—Motto of the Liberator., 1837-1839. "My country" originally—later changed to "Our country." | seealso = (See also {{sc|Plutarch}}) | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. | author = Goldsmith | work = The Traveler. L. 73. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale—His Last Words, Sept. 22, . Stewart's Life of Capt. Nathan Hale. Ch. VII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Strike—for your altars and your fires; Strike—for the green graves of your sires; God—and your native land! Fitz-Greene Halleck—Marco Bozzaris. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! Robert Stephen Hawker—Song of the Western Men. Mr. Hawker asserts that he wrote the ballad in 1825, all save the chorus and the last two lines, which since the 'imprisonment by James II, 1688, of the seven Bishops, have been popular throughout Cornwall. (Trelawny was Bishop of Bristol.) First appearance in the Royal Devonport Telegram and Plymouth Chronicle, Sept. 2, 1826. Story of the ballad in Macaulay's History of England. Footnote for Hawker, | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = He serves his party best who serves the country best. Rutherford B. Hayes. Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Homer}}) | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am not a Virginian but an American. Patrick Henry—In the Continental Congress, Sept. 5, 1774. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! Holmes—Voyage of the Good Ship Union. Poems of the Class of '29. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He serves me most who serves his country best. Homer—Iliad. Bk. X. L. 206 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hayes}}) | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. Homer—Iliad. Bk. XV. L. 583 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 585 }}