“My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.”
Letter to his mistress, Lady Hamilton (1800) [citation needed]; derived from "But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive." by William Shakespeare, in Henry V
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“I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.”
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
As engraved on the statue of Ferdinand Foch on Grosvenor Square, London.
Rosie Malek-Yonan (1965) Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist
As quoted in The Crimson Field.
The Crimson Field (2005)
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Municipal Gallery Revisited http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1659/, st. 7 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939) <br class="br">Variant: Think where man's glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends. <br class="br">Context: You that would judge me, do not judge alone<br>This book or that, come to this hallowed place<br>Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon;<br>Ireland's history in their lineaments trace;<br>Think where man's glory most begins and ends<br>And say my glory was I had such friends.
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Others <br class="br">Source: Loving country you live in part of Muslim faith, says Ahmadi leader, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/06/loving-country-you-live-in-part-of-muslim-faith-says-ahmadi-leader,
Artur Balder (1974) Spanish film director
Invocation of the Nordic god Odin, from "Invocations and Oracles", Germanic Appendices, Volume V of the Teutoburg Saga, as quoted in advance posting (30 September 2014) https://m.facebook.com/ArturBalderWeb/photos/a.328905527173875.77327.224962374234858/757576457640111/?type=1
“And I would like to say: Glory to Ukraine, and I hope everything will be fine in my country.”
Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine
Source: "Transcript: Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych on the situation in his country" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DGoGVKRGNYMJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-ukraines-viktor-yanukovych-on-the-situation-in-his-country/2014/03/11/ffb8fefe-a942-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (11 March 2014)