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The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, ‘Damn, we’re Americans,’ and smile.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Love of country is like love of woman – he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

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

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.