“He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.”
Edward Everett Hale book The Man Without a Country
Epitaph of Philip Nolan in "The Man Without a Country" (1863)
The Marquis of Lorne, Viscount Palmerston, K.G. (London: 1892), p. 235
“He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.”
Edward Everett Hale book The Man Without a Country
Epitaph of Philip Nolan in "The Man Without a Country" (1863)
“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
“But since he had
The genuis to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Crowned and Buried, xxvii reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Jeder liebt sein Land, seine Sitten, seine Sprache, sein Weib, seine Kinder, nicht weil sie die besten auf der Welt, sondern weil sie die bewährten Seinigen sind, und er in ihnen sich und seine Mühe selbst liebt.
Vol. 1, p. 13; translation vol. 1, p. 18
Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784-91)