From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come,
Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;
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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.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.
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'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.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a read more

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

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

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.

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

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
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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.