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 PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISM

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! Carl Schurz—Speech in V. S. Senate. (1872) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Decatur) Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? Scott—Marmion. Canto IV. St. 30. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri. To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. Seneca—Octavia 444. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Had I a dozen sons,—each in my love alike, for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 24. I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, than mine own life. Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 111. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}
 * * * I had rather have eleven die nobly

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where liberty is, there is my country. Algernon Sidney's motto. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it. John Taylor—The Old, OH, Very Old Man. ({{sc|Parr.}}) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A saviour of the silver -coasted isle. | author = Tennyson | work = Ode on Death of Duke of Wellington. Pt. VI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Put none but Americans on guard tonight. Attributed to Washington. The only basis for this order seems to be found in Washington's circular letter to regimental commanders, dated April 30, 1777, regarding recruits for his body guard. "You will therefore send me none but natives." A few months before, Thomas Hickey, a deserter from the British army, had tried to poison Washington, had been convicted and hanged. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. Byron Webber—Hands Across the Sea. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. Daniel Webster—Address at the Laying of the Comer-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1825. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thank God, I—I also—am an American! Daniel Webster—Completion of Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1843. la Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. Daniel Webster—Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! Daniel Webster—Speech. July 17, 1850. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. H. G. Wells-—Future in America. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The lines of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we should have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being colored will be glorified and purified. Woodrow Wilson—Flag Day Speech. May 7,1915. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our country—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;—still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. Robt. C. Winthrop—Toast at Faneuil Hall. July 4, 1845. Our country, however bounded. Toast founded on the speech of Winthrop. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Decatur}}) | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. Robt. C. Winthhop—Letter to Boston Commercial Club. June 12, 1879. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our land is the dearer for our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life. Rev. E. J. Young—Lesson of the Hour. In Mag. of History. Extra. No. 43. Originally pub. in Monthly Religious Mag., Boston, May, 1865. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lincoln}} under {{sc|Soldiers}}) | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = America is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming. . . these are the fires of God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American. Zangwill—The'Melting Pot. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patriotism | page = 587 }}