Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. – Seneca

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What we need are critical lovers of America – patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. – Woodrow Wilson

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Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. – Giuseppe Mazzini

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