Source: Polish independence centenary commemorated worldwide https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/polish-independence-centenary-commemorated-worldwide-3228 (11 November 2018)
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”
Letter to Benjamin Rush (18 April 1808)
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Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 85
“Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.”
Source: Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825), p. 78
Context: Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration for ever!
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.