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Quotes About Patriotism

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
~ Daniel Webster
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
~ Leonard Cohen
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
~ John G. Diefenbaker
The habitant is the true Canadian, for he has no other country.
~ Ramsay Traquair
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
~ Henri Bourassa
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
~ Joe Wallace
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves; Britains never will be slaves.
~ James Thomson
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
~ William Hazlitt
Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.
~ Hugh Mills
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
~ Rupert Brooke
Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.
~ Charles Churchill
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian, Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman.
~ W. S. Gilbert
What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own?
~ W. E. Henley
fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When Britain first at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And Guardian angels sung this strain; "Rule Britannia! rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."
~ James Thomson
If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
~ John A. Dix
Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it, Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it, Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it, Here comes the Flag!
~ Arthur Macy
The flag of our Union forever!
~ George P. Morris
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
~ Francis Scott Key
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom, We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
~ George F. Root