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Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Watchword of French Revolution.

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And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
CHARLES FITZGEFFREY-Life and Death of Sir
Francis Drake. St. 213. (1600)
(See also BARRINGTON)

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Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON-Motto of the Liberator., 1837-1839. "My country" originally-later changed to "Our country." (See also PLUTARCH)

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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. GOLDSMITH-The Traveler. L. 73.

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

NATHAN HALE His Last Words, Sept. 22, 1776. STEWART's Life of Capt. Nathan Hale. Ch. VII.

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Strike for your altars and your fires; Strike for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK-Marco Bozzaris.

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And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?

Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Song of the Western Men. Mr. Hawker asserts that he wrote the ballad in 1825, all save the chorus and the last two lines, which since the imprisonment by James II, 1688, of the seven Bishops, have been popular throughout Cornwall. (Trelawny was Bishop of Bristol.) First appearance in the Royal Devonport Telegram and Plymouth Chronicle, Sept. 2, 1826. Story of the ballad in MACAULAY'S History of England. Footnote for HAWKER.

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I am not a Virginian but an American.
PATRICK HENRY-In the Continental Congress,
Sept. 5, 1774.

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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!

HOLMES Voyage of the Good Ship Union.
Poems of the Class of '29.

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