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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. -

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. – Joseph Addison

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. – Bruno Bauer

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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. – Luis Bunuel

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Im an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. – George Galloway

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