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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who read more
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Our ships were British oak,
And hearts of oak our men.
Our ships were British oak,
And hearts of oak our men.
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
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.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all read more
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.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Servare read more
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, read more
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
