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!
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Context: There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
“True patriots all; for be it understood
We left our country for our country’s good.”
Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. Compare: "'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad", George Farquhar, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Act iii, scene 2.
Variant translation: We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”
Letter to Benjamin Rush (18 April 1808)
1800s
“We can bear that. for the sake of our country, are you blaming us for loving our country or what?”
Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c.
2013
“Our cause is just... our country will be grateful”
“Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.”
Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 30
Speech at the unveiling of the Hudson Memorial in Hyde Park (19 May 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 129.
1925
“Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.”
Motto of The Liberator (1831)
The Liberator (1831 - 1866)
November 1953, quoted in Alan Watkins The Liberal Dilemma (Macgibbon and Kee, 1966) p. 91.
