VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a hopeful view of the prospects of your own country? Why should it be? Why should patriotism and pessimism be identical? Hope is the mainspring of patriotism.

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

There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country."

We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study, And vigilance for their safety, must not change Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from The secure shade of their own vines, to be Scorched with the flames of war.

Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.

'Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear The living degradation we may know If we do dread death for a sacred cause?

Liberty, equality, fraternity.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

The whole earth is the brave man's country.

My country is the world, and my religion to do good.

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword.

Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.

Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!