VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you want our weapons come and get them.

Our country, however bounded.

The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!

Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men.

From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

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

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

"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."

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Our country is the common parent of all.

Our country is wherever we are well off.

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.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.