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So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.

All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. .

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

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

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.

Every man has two countries, his own and France.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".